Prayer-ful Inner Searching

I Thessalonians 5:23

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly: and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"Your whole spirit...The great, mysterious work of the Holy Spirit is in the deep recesses of our being which we cannot reach. Read Psalm 139. The psalmist implies-"O Lord, You are the God of early mornings, the God of late nights, the God of the mountain peaks, and the God of the sea." But my God, my soul has horizons further away than those of early mornings, deeper darkness than the nights of the earth, higher peaks than any mountain peaks, greater depths than any sea in nature. I cannot reach to the heights or to the depths; there are motives I cannot discover, dreams I cannot realize. My God, search me."
My Utmost For His Highest, by Oswald Chambers

As I meditate on the words above I am so encouraged. My soul could not have said this better! I cannot discover all of the motives of myself nor do I know all of my dreams. But I know that I have dreams and desires that are hidden from me, that one by one each minute and each day as I allow God to work in me he shows me, me, but not for my glory but for His. I cannot dare to compare myself to someone else, that is so dangerous. I am unique, how glorious!, that God calls us for a specific purpose and that he has gifted us with the unique skills and personality to carry them out. I am excited about the hidden things of Christ in me! I want him to search my motives, change my heart. I am overwhelmed by the intimacy of this walk, of my God, who searcheth me, who fulfills my dreams, who has a plan for me, whose desires are beyond what I can comprehend.

Lord, show yourself through me. Allow my life to be an example, that you would work through me to make a difference in the lives of your people. I fail but you lift up, I lack but you are faithful, I doubt but You are Holy! Lord seach me and create in me a clean heart.