March 7 - Wholly His

“…I will hear from heaven…” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

After we humble ourselves, pray, seek His face, and turn from our  wicked ways, the Lord of Hosts says He will hear from heaven. What does He  hear? Psalm 102:19-20 tells us that He looks down from the holy height of  His sanctuary of heaven and searches the earth in order to hear the  prisoner’s sigh. A simple sigh. He listens for our sighs, our dependent cries,  in order to set us free. How amazing is our God!  

Yet, while we stand amazed that He searches out even a sigh, we  somehow think He doesn’t really see what we don’t want Him to see. How  ludicrous to think we can get away with the “secret” sins we harbor in the  recesses of our hearts.

Proverbs is packed with warning about falling prey to sin, particularly  sexual sin. Why such a focus? Is it because it often begins almost  imperceptibly and then suddenly is in full bloom? Or because we think it’s  just “our little secret” that no one else knows about? We are fools to think we  can fool God!

“Choose you this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15). Will  you choose to turn to God and truly give up your “hidden” sin? Or will you  choose to turn away because, like Gollum in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings,  you are unwilling to give up My Precious, your “secret” sin?

Let’s humbly come before our all-knowing God and King, asking Him to  again search our hearts. If we have not already done so, let’s ask Him to help  us to, once and for all, let go of our “little secret” sins.

Today’s Action:  
Let’s read Proverbs 7 together, choosing to apply His direct, but  loving, words of warning to our hearts so that we might not sin against Him.

“With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth  talk she compels him. All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to  the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast tell an arrow pierces its  liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will  cost him his life.” (Proverbs 7:21-23) ESV