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A Dangerous Prayer

Am currently in the middle of a bible study series on prayer, and man! The exercises are hard! Attending those sessions have made me realize that I'm guilty of having really simplistic and "safe" prayers.

The passage we were asked to read was Psalm 139. The key verses are the ones at the end (v23-24):

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

I totally understand why that's considered a dangerous prayer that only a daring Christian would dare to pray.

I feel like I'm too much of a sinner to be comfortable with asking God to search my heart. I worry about the thoughts and feelings that He will inevitably find therein. And yet, our challenge for this week is to pray this prayer and see where it leads.

I am too afraid to pray it, but at the same time, it bothers me that I'm afraid. Looks like there's no easy way out of this one.

Tags: Religion

Posted by CF at 11:40 PM