Search me, 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 way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24 NIV
The human heart is prone to deceit and deception. God's verdict is that "the heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked". If I trust God's verdict, it should give me cause for concern, while also praying to God to help me. The heart can lead a man down the path of prediction, because from it flow all both life's scum and treasures. It all depends on who is in control at every point in time.
The Psalmist asks God to search out and test his heart, so that only the right stuff may remain. God who created the heart is the only one who can clean it and make it fit for purpose and impact. There are things that may be in the heart, and which can never make it worthy of noble use. That is why God must work on us, cleanse, purify, purge and sanctify, so we can be led by him on the path to life.
God will not turn the broad way into the narrow way because of me; all he can do is to take me from the broad way and keep me in the narrow way. Some things will not happen until I am yielded and willing for God to work on me. Am I surrendered to him? Is my heart such that is open to God to touch and use as he pleases? His time of favour is here.
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