DAILY?READINGS: 2 Chronicles 20; Ezekiel 39; John 16:16-33
I the LORD search the heart. Jeremiah 17:10
Reading what the prophets say about our heart is like going from one physician to another and getting bad news at every turn. Moses says that our hearts are proud and lifted up. Isaiah tells us that our hearts are dull and distant. Jeremiah declares the heart to be deceitful above all else and desperately wicked. Time for another opinion? No. We must go to the Lord, the great Physician, who searches the heart. He not only knows us best and loves us most, but He alone is able to change us. He always starts at the heart. —Rex Trogdon
Search me, O God, and know my heart today;
Try me, O Saviour, know my thoughts, I pray,
See if there be some wicked way in me;
Cleanse me from ev’ry sin and set me free. —J. Edwin Orr