Why Examine
your Life?
It was several
years after I had begun my serious walk with the Lord. I was walking to the
grocery store and talking to God. I know I have cleaned up pretty well on the
outside, I told Him, but do you
really care how I look on the inside?
At that moment
I entered the store and stopped short behind a elderly woman using the ATM as
though she had never seen one before. I
waited as she took several tries at extracting her money. She finally moved on and I was able to use
the machine. I took off to get the few
things I needed. I soon encountered the same woman blocking the whole cereal aisle
with her cart, searching shelf by shelf on both sides to make her
selection. I waited until she finished
with my annoyance mounting, then dashed away to complete my errands.
When I got to the 10
items or Less line, there was
my favorite shopper digging through her change purse to find buried
treasure. I realized what was
happening. I had to fight hard to stifle my
laughter. In only a few minutes God had
shown me how He saw me. My question was
answered. It was then that I began my process of examining myself and allowing
God to reveal the areas of my life that still needed serious cleaning. This is the course from which we never graduate
because there is always another exam.
