May 10

CHRIST the INTROSPECTOR: “Jesus…knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man” (Jn 2:24-25). Says C.H. Spurgeon, “A healthy man hardly knows whether he has a stomach or a liver; it’s your sickly man who grows more sickly by the study of his inward complaints. Too many wound themselves by studying themselves. Every morning they think of what they should feel; all day long they dwell upon what they are not feeling; and at night they make diligent search for what they have been feeling.…You may look a long while into an empty pocket before you find a coin, and you may look a long time into fallen nature before you find comfort.” David had it right: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” (Ps 139:23-24). Lord, You look inside. You assess my condition. Then, Great Physician, please provide the antidote!

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