A Prayer for a Completely different Type of Decision Setting
By Jessica Van Roekel
Bible Studying:
“Search me, O God, and know my coronary heart! Attempt me and know my ideas! And see if there be any grievous approach in me and lead me in the way in which eternal!” – Psalm 139:23-24
Hear or Learn Beneath:
I’m a serial decision breaker. It’s true. I make resolutions, after which three days later, my resolve breaks. My emotions about it vary from frustration to disgrace as a result of I couldn’t maintain my phrase to myself. To resolve, in keeping with dictionary.com, means to come back to an earnest determination to take a decided plan of action. Setting resolutions helps us develop, so why not go to the one who is aware of us finest? After we go to God for steering, we’re much less prone to develop discouraged once we battle to maintain our resolutions as a result of we all know God permits and empowers us to stroll in his will for us.
David, referred to as the person after God’s personal coronary heart, reveals us tips on how to discover the resolve to make life modifications in Psalm 139. This psalm reveals how the all-knowing God touches our life and is aware of us intimately in verses one via six. Then, in verses seven via twelve, we uncover how the all-present God is at all times with us. Verses 13 via sixteen reveal how the everlasting God fashioned us.
Then, the top of the Psalm leads us right into a response to the greatness of God in verses seventeen via twenty-two, which takes us into at the moment’s humble prayer in verses twenty-three and twenty-four. God has good data, supplies fixed presence, and may be trusted to go looking and know us on the deepest ranges. David needed God to go looking his coronary heart for worries or unperceived sins so he may stroll in God’s methods, not what he thought was finest for himself.
After we method decision setting this new 12 months, we are able to start by admitting God is aware of us higher than we all know ourselves. We might have an thought of the modifications we need to make to our lives, however God is aware of what’s finest for us inside his better function. He might want us to take a theological understanding about himself and apply it to our development in discipleship.
For instance, we might want to vary our consuming habits, however God might want us to vary our ungrateful habits. Or we might need to select a phrase of the 12 months like improve, however God might want us to lower. God cares a lot extra in regards to the state of our hearts and the renewal of our minds as a result of He is aware of we expertise lasting outward change when it takes place first on the within.
It may be a threat to ask God to go looking us. The Hebrew time period for search is to “look at totally.” There are occasions I need to cover elements of myself from the Lord as a result of I don’t like what I discover. However God doesn’t reply with dislike. He cares about us an excessive amount of to let unhelpful habits and tendencies persist. He leads us in His approach once we are keen to present it up, flip from it, and give up to His resolutions for us.
Whenever you sit all the way down to make your resolutions for this 12 months, why not attempt beginning with this prayer from Psalm 139? God loves you a lot and is aware of you higher than you understand your self. Let Him information you right into a decision setting. Perhaps He desires to proceed what He’s began in you, or perhaps He desires to show your path to one thing new. Once I’ve let the Lord lead my resolutions, I’m way more profitable in maintaining them. We will belief Him to information us in His methods for the brand new 12 months.
Let’s Pray:
Heavenly Father,
Thanks for loving me and realizing me sufficient to information me in the very best methods. I belief You to indicate me my coronary heart, to find what You need to change so I replicate You to a misplaced and weary world. I need to run forward of You and decide what I believe is finest for my life. I admit I don’t know what You want with out taking time to ask You to go looking my coronary heart. Look deep inside me, Lord. I belief You to deal with me with mild love.
I resolve to rising in religion and non secular maturity, and I’m going to let You lead me as a result of you understand me higher than I do know myself. Let this 12 months be a 12 months of my life bringing You honor and glory. Attempt me, know my ideas, after which lead me in the way in which eternal.
In Jesus’ title, Amen
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