Aug 1, 2016
MY FRIENDS, HAVE WE ALLOWED GOD TO SEARCH US THROUGH AND THROUGH?
“Come and make my heart Your home. Come and be everything I am and all I know as You Search me through and through until my heart becomes a home for You. Let everything I do open up a door For You to come through Then my heart would be a place where You want to be, Come and make my heart your home,” (Hillsong Kids, My Heart, Your Home) My friends, our only path to salvation is for Christ to “Search us through and through until our heart is His home.”
It’s personal because it is your heart and my heart that must ask God to Search us thoroughly, and make this “corruptible heart incorruptible, and this mortal heart fitted for immortality.” Remember He knows our heart; and our anxious thoughts; And He can see if there is any wicked or hurtful way in us, [and then through our faith and endurance] lead us through the paths of righteousness for His name sake!] Psalm 139:23-24 (AMP)
The word search is a verb that requires action and in the context of our salvation, we must seek Christ and ask Him daily to “Examine us…and prove us. Try our mind and 
our heart. For His lovingkindness is before our eyes. So through our faith He must never stop “searching us through and through. And then when we have given it all to Him, He will “Create in us a pure heart, as He begins to renew a steadfast spirit within us” until our heart becomes a home where He can abide.
And with no reservation He will say to the “accuser of the brethren” I have searched them and “There is no one on earth like them;” for they are “men and women who fear the Lord and shuns evil”…… who will always stand for what is right though “the heavens and earth may pass away,” they will always focus on a risen Savior and His will for their lives.
Remember, it is God who will search our heart and choose those who are “safe to save,” it is God who will look at the entire journey of our life and see how we finished the course and determined if our faith was that of a mustard seed, able to say unto any mountain, “Move from here to there,’ and it move; [because we understood with God abiding in our heart daily, nothing was impossible for us to accomplish]” Matt 17:20 (NKJV)
In addition, all who are willing participants in this controversy between good and evil must understand the battle is being fought daily over our heart because Satan knows “Christ came to our world because He saw that we had lost the image and nature of God. He saw that we had wandered far from the path of peace and purity, and that, if left to ourselves, we would never find our way back.
He came with a full and complete salvation, to change our stony hearts to hearts of flesh, to change our sinful natures into His similitude, that, by being partakers of the divine nature, we might be fitted for the heavenly courts….” (E.G. White, From the Heart, P 259) So if Satan can keep our heart focused on the things of this world instead of having a personal relationship with Christ, he wins.
And no matter how long Christ will “stand at the door of our heart “and knock: we will never hear His voice, and open the door because we are too occupied with the things of this world and Satan’s offer we never refused. And that offer was, “[all these things of this world that are temporary] will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” Matt 4:9 (KJV)
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