I Will Teach you

Lord, teach me what I cannot see; if I have done wrong, I will not do it again. Job 34:32

How many times when we pray, do we actually ask God to teach us about ourselves so that we can learn what we should not be doing? Sometimes we are doing something wrong, and just don't realize it. We may be sinning by default. 

There are some people that just do not want to know. They think that whatever they do is okay. That they are right and everyone else is wrong. That their ways are better ways. That no one "does it like they do." And if everyone doesn't take their advice or do something the way they think they should...well they are just wrong. 

Maybe we are all like that at times. 

 Just maybe we all need a good dose of humility at times, Knowing that God can teach us the things that he wants us to know and do. And not do. 

Job asked God to teach him the things within himself that he could not see. The things he had done wrong without knowing. Is it too much to ask God to teach us those things that we do not see in ourselves? Hidden things in our hearts. 

That is what growing as Christians is all about. From the time we become born again, God wants to grow us up. To become like him. But it takes time. An infant isn't born one day, only to do the things that he would learn as he grew. It takes time. 

However, God wants us to grow up. We are not to stay as babies in our Christian lives. And the way to do that is through the Holy Spirit whose job it is to teach us the things that we should know. And one of those things are  to learn of the things we do wrong, that we can confess and not do any more. 

Do we ask God to reveal those hidden things of our hearts?

If not we should. And we should be doing it on a regular basis. Because we want God's forgiveness all the way. Not just a little bit. But all the way. David in Psalm 51:10 asked God to create in him a pure heart after he had been with Bathsheba and took part in their affair. And God did. And he will for us too as he changes us from the inside out. And teaches us his ways which are better then our own.  What better a life is that? But the teaching we get, comes from God and our desire to know it and him. What better is a life for us then that?

Lord, teach me what I cannot see. So that I may not do wrong again. Teach me your ways that can know you better.

It's one way to grow as a Christian. 

Have a wonderful and blessed weekend, Friends.