Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law. Psalm 94:12
SA 94:12{Perhaps we have gone through all this, and known the humbling blessedness of being searched and "told," and then pardoned and cleansed; and now again there is something not right. We hardly know what, only there is a misgiving, a dim, vague uneasiness; we "really don't know of anything in particular," and yet there is something unsatisfied and unsatisfactory. There is nothing for it but to come to our Savior afresh, and ask Him to tell us what we have done, or are doing, which is not in accordance with His will. It will be useless coming if we are not sincerely purposed to let Him tell us what He will, and not merely what we expect; or if we hush up the first word of an unwelcome whisper, and say, "Oh, that can't have anything to do with it!" or, "I am all right there, at any rate!" We must simply say, "Master, say on"; and perhaps He will then show us, as He did Simon, that we have not done Him the true and loving service which some poor, despised one has rendered.
Oh, never shrink from the probings of our beloved Physician. Dearer and dearer will the hand become as we yield to it. Sweeter and sweeter will be the proofs that He is our own faithful Friend, who only wounds that He may perfectly heal.
Is it not often so,
That we only learn in part.
And the Master's testing time may show
That it was not quite "by heart"?
Then He gives, in His wise and patient grace,
That lesson again
With the mark still set in the self-same place.