An Examined Life

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.