Dust

Search me, O God, 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.  Psalm 139:23,24

Can someone please explain to me how a silverware tray gets so dirty sitting in a kitchen drawer with only clean utensils resting in each cubical?  It's one of life's mysteries.

But kidding aside, I have realized that if I don't pay close attention, I can start accumulating dust in my heart.   I allow things to creep in.  I become de-sensitized by watching the News, or movies.  I justify or make an excuse to what I read or listen to.  Have I gone soft towards certain sins?

King David realized that too.  He called them 'Secret Faults.'  In Psalm 19:12, he asks this question:

"Who can understand his errors?  cleanse thou me from secret faults."

Secret faults are sins committed in ignorance,  those we honestly do not realize to be sin, AND sins that are hidden.  Those we tuck way down deep in our hearts that no one else knows about, and will do them willingly and in secret.

King David wanted to live uprightly and live a life blameless before God, and so he prayed that God would cleanse him from his secret sins.

We should desire that as well.

When we ask God to show us what is truly in our hearts, He will.  And when we confess our secret faults to Him, He will sweep all that dust away, and wash away our sins so that our lives can be pleasing before Him.  1 John 1:9

I want to be dust free!

But that's just me!