How Am I Doing? – Day 46

It is almost time to enter the time of Lent – the season leading up to Easter.  For me, it is a special time.  It is an opportunity to evaluate myself and see where I am failing.  Where is it that I am not doing as God would have me to do?  What am I missing?  One of the most powerful parts of this time is this isn’t a time to evaluate others.  This is a time of deep searching within. 

During lent, I am reminded of Psalm 139, verses 23-24, “²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. ²⁴ See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”  These verses call for God to search us.  We are asking God to test us, to know what we are thinking.  We are seeking God to take a deep, long look at us.  In doing this, we surely will find where we are missing it.  We will find where we are doing well.  And we will find where God is working in us to make us more like him.

This is a challenging opportunity to spend time with God and have him lead us.  It can be exciting, painful, beautiful and difficult all at the same time.  But if we are willing, we can come out of this reflecting his glory and shining bright for him.  In the end, we may find we are the light shining in the darkness.  Are you ready to have God search you and seek to become more like him?  Let it begin.