| “Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart,” “for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.” “The Lord is in His holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven: His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men. The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence His soul hateth.” It is not a light thing to truthfully ask the Lord to “let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight,” but it is a most needful thing, and a thing that will bring great blessing. Elsewhere the Lord tells us that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” “Thou hast proved mine heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress,” “for there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, Thou knowest it altogether.” “I will meditate in Thy precepts, and have respect unto Thy ways.” |
