“As for you Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a whole heart and willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands the intentions of every thought.”
1 Chronicles 28:9
Honestly searching your tent means we are going deep, the place where Achan hid his stuff in Joshua 7:16. It was underneath his tent in the ground and his heart was there with it. That is where we are going, we are the tent today and our heart is the soil that Christ referred to in Luke 8:15. How is your soil? What has been hiding deep in it? Sometimes in recovery we here phrases like “moral inventory” or “searching fearlessly.” Whatever you want to call it, it really doesn’t matter to me as long as you know where we are going to search. We are going on a journey of the heart and we will find treasure worth keeping and we will find unusable junk. If you do not have a Christian brother or sister, mentor/sponsor by this point I recommend that you find one. Pray to God that he will send you a person that will guide you through this part of your journey. God wants to recover you so believe me when I say this, He will send you your guide. As a business man I had to do inventory monthly for many reasons, every single month we would count thousands of dollars worth of product. When we got to the food and beverage part of our inventory without question we would find something that needed to be thrown out. It was rotten, spoiled and of no use and should never be served to anyone again. We are no different. We have stuff that should have been thrown out years ago. Keeping bad product on the shelf makes everything a bit stinky in the tent. Searching your tent is really just taking inventory of what we got. The good and the bad! Don’t just search for all the bad stuff, there is so much usable product in your heart, God knows where. Let’s use it, God will, if you let Him.
If you are truly willing to search every ‘nook and cranny’ of your heart then you will need a light. This light will help you in those dark places that you will be digging around in. Christ is that light, the only light that can search this way.
“Search me, o God and know my heart; test me and know my concerns. See if there is any offensive way in me; lead me in the everlasting way.” Psalms 139:23
By: Bill A. Gaspard, Life Recovery Coach
http://www.christianrecoverycoaching.com/
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