Revelation of the Word:
Revelation of the Word 02/08/2023 Admin
THEME: SELF-EXAMINATION
Lamentations 3:40 NIV
“Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.”
INSIGHT
-During the Babylonian invasion under the rulership of king Nebuchadnezzar, the Israelites lamented and suffered both physically, emotionally and spiritually. Prophets like Jeremiah, formed part of the writers of the poems in the book of Lamentations, expressing God’s guidance and instructions to the people. God was calling the Israelites to examine themselves and return to Him. Like the Israelites, God is calling us today to examine our thoughts, tempers, words, and works, and consider what they have been, whether agreeable or contrary to the holy will of God. Further, to judge our state and character, not by our faint wishes, good intentions, transient resolutions, or even warm affections, but by our steps; and not by one particular step, but by our ways, our whole conduct; the ends we aim at, the rules we go by, and the agreeableness or contrariety of the temper of our minds, and the tenor of our lives to those ends and those rules. When we are in affliction it is peculiarly seasonable to consider our ways as Haggai 1:5 discloses. That what is amiss may be repented of, and amended for the future, and so we may answer the intention of the affliction and chastening of the Lord.
PRAYER
Search me O God, and know my heart. Try me and know my anxious thoughts and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. Our hearts are deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? Only You Lord our God, can search our hearts, test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, and the fruit of his doing. May You forgive us dear Lord Jesus and wash us with Your precious blood. Your word says that blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin. Thank You for blessing us with every kind of spiritual blessing, and by Your grace which abounds forevermore. May You draw us closer to You and Your statutes merciful Savior that we may be more like You. May You help us to forgive those who offend us, and heal our wounds within. May You refresh us with a fresh anointing that we may experience Your presence, peace and love, forevermore. Amen
Further reading: Psalms 139:23-24, Hebrews 12:11, Romans 4:7-8
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