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“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way!” Psalm 139:23-24
It will be worth our while to think seriously of the things in us, that only God can see. There are sins which are hidden from ourselves, of which our conscience is not aware. There is a SELF in us, we ourselves do not see! … You may say that you know of no sins, errors, or faults in yourself–and you may be sincere; still this is not evidence that you are sinless.
Our conscience is not the final court. It is not enough to have the approval of our own heart. There are errors and evils in the holiest life on earth, which only God’s eye can detect. We must ask God to search us, if we would be made clean.
We cannot see our own faults, even as our neighbors can see them. There is wisdom in the wish that we might see ourselves, as others see us–for it would free us from many a blunder and foolish notion.
We are prejudiced in our own favor;
disposed to be charitable toward our own shortcomings.
We make allowances for our own faults; 
wonderfully patient with our own weaknesses.
We are blind to our own blemishes;
and see only the best of ourselves.
If you were to meet yourself on the street some morning–that is, the person God sees you to be, you would probably not recognize yourself!
And We remember the little story that the prophet Nathan told King David, about a rich man’s injustice toward a poor man–and how David’s anger flamed up. “This man must die!” cried the king. He did not recognize himself in the man he so despised, until Nathan quietly said, “You are the man!”
We are all too much like David. …
Because We do not know our real self. We do not imagine there is so much about us that is morally ugly and foul. But God searches and knows the innermost and hidden things of our heart!
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way!”
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