Heavenly Checkup

I would like to talk to you today about a

Heavenly Checkup. We would not put off

longer than a year or two without a

physical checkup. Our car needs a check-

up every twenty thousand miles, or so.

Even our pets get shots and checked

often.

But as God’s child, did you ever have a

Heavenly Checkup? We all need this

checkup from time to time to reveal our

spiritual condition. King David, the

Psalmist, recognized his need for a

spiritual checkup when he cried out in

Psalm 139, “O Lord, thou have searched

me and known me, Thou knowest my

down sitting and my uprising. Thou

understand my thoughts afar off.”  He

charts our path as a believer. He knows

what we are thinking before we say it.

I talked to an older lady recently. She

said, “I cannot understand the robbing

and looting in our stores.” She shared, “I

took something without paying when I

was small. Mom made me take it back

and it still bothers me.” God heals our

broken and contrite spirit. He will follow

our path today, yet he has already gone

before us. Are we willing for the Great

Physician to know our spiritual condition

and our attitudes? As King David prayed,

we, too, can pray the prayer of David.

“Father, search me and know my heart,

try me and know my thoughts, and see if

there be any wicked way in me and lead

me in the way everlasting.”

Amen.