Truth in the inward part
“You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom” Psalm 51:6
How different God looks at us as compared to how we look at ourselves. We look in the mirror and arrange every hair just so, scrub the bedtime sleep away, fix the face and off on our day we go. Yet, we leave the home that God’s provided without a prayer, without a look into His mirror, and without the son rising in our hearts.
We, too often begin our day, empty. The armor of God hangs loosely on us, the helmet of salvation rattles on our heads, and our feet are unprepared in the proclamation of the gospel of peace (Eph. 6). We simply are unprepared to face the deceptive evil of our day.
On the surface we’ve ‘got it going on’ but what of our heart, that inward portion of ourselves that is eternal? What are we here for unless called upon to shine forth the love of Christ to foreigner and friend alike? If we are thus unprepared to face the spiritual war of our day then who will the Captain of Grace utilize to speak a word of kindness here… or stand for the truth… there?
If unprepared have we not become worthless and unprofitable servants for our Commanders use? If we are so unfaithful and so slothful to dismiss this, our so great salvation, then is it not fair and right for our Heavenly Father to choose another to serve in the place intended for us?
I ask, where is the heart, the passion, the thrill and joy of our salvation? Where is that childlike excitement and over abundant energy to simply and joyfully serve, another?
We find then our hearts turning back to David’s psalm, and crying… “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies wipe out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin” Psa. 51
We do so for we seek not a position or a reenergizing of some gift or talent or ability but a return to the feet of our Savior; a healing in our relationship a return to the joy of our salvation…
How different God looks at us as compared to how we look at ourselves. We look in the mirror and arrange every hair just so, scrub the bedtime sleep away, fix the face and off on our day we go. Yet, we leave the home that God’s provided without a prayer, without a look into His mirror, and without the son rising in our hearts.
We, too often begin our day, empty. The armor of God hangs loosely on us, the helmet of salvation rattles on our heads, and our feet are unprepared in the proclamation of the gospel of peace (Eph. 6). We simply are unprepared to face the deceptive evil of our day.
On the surface we’ve ‘got it going on’ but what of our heart, that inward portion of ourselves that is eternal? What are we here for unless called upon to shine forth the love of Christ to foreigner and friend alike? If we are thus unprepared to face the spiritual war of our day then who will the Captain of Grace utilize to speak a word of kindness here… or stand for the truth… there?
If unprepared have we not become worthless and unprofitable servants for our Commanders use? If we are so unfaithful and so slothful to dismiss this, our so great salvation, then is it not fair and right for our Heavenly Father to choose another to serve in the place intended for us?
I ask, where is the heart, the passion, the thrill and joy of our salvation? Where is that childlike excitement and over abundant energy to simply and joyfully serve, another?
We find then our hearts turning back to David’s psalm, and crying… “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of your tender mercies wipe out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin” Psa. 51
We do so for we seek not a position or a reenergizing of some gift or talent or ability but a return to the feet of our Savior; a healing in our relationship a return to the joy of our salvation…
posted by Michael Byrd at 5:46 AM
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