Revisiting The Spiritual Journey 2025 Year of Exposure Day 1: My Spiritual Journey

“O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers! They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name. O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you? Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭1‬-‭24‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Before jumping fully into our revisiting of the Spiritual Journey, allow me to enlarge on something to which I alluded last time.

Again, I want you to understand that in some way or another, no matter how it may happen, or what it may look like, we all must take a personal spiritual journey.

As part of this journey we must come to know the true condition of the world, the full nature of the gift of our salvation, as well as renouncing any residue left from the world system.

Please understand, whether in our thinking, emotions, behavior, whatever part of our being, we must be completely purged of any pull (access) retained by the enemy of our soul. Only then will we be ready to pursue all that the Lord has for us. Left in our being, these access points serve as “hooks” through which the enemy can pull us into temptation.

Indeed, no matter how your life has been to this point in time, you must know that we all carry around residue ranging from that which is not expedient to our walk with the Lord, to that which is destructive of the same. Yes, we have formed opinions, accepted some things as truth, while rejecting other things as false, as a result of our interactions in the world system.

We have come to react to everything that happens to us based on the whole constellation of everything we’ve ever been through, everything we’ve ever thought, everything anybody has ever done to us, all of our failings, even things we esteemed as good. The problem is that we have perhaps developed ways of being and doing that form a barrier to knowing the truth that will set us free to live a life fully characterized by righteousness (God‘s way of being and doing).

Of course, as Christians, we know that Jesus promised to give us the Holy Spirit to lead us into all truth. Indeed, we now have access to knowing what we need to know by way of the Holy Spirit’s guidance inside of us.

However, as you may have observed in the life of others, or even have seen in your own thoughts and behavior, we are probably not fully yielded to the Holy Spirit, as yet.

Our opening scripture brings a psalm of David in which he reflects on God‘s knowledge of him, as well as the goodness of God toward him. He ends with a crucial request of the Lord:

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭23‬-‭24‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Child of God, the Lord knows us better than we know ourselves. There is nothing about us He doesn’t know. He knew us before we were born. He knows the number of our days. He knows when we will leave this life to enter into the next life. Therefore, only He can guide us through the process of decoupling from the world system so that we may be fully His.

Make no mistake, if we will not submit ourselves to this process, it will not take place. But, if we do submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit’s challenges, guidance, and yes, discipline, we can access all that God has done for us in Jesus Christ.

Next time we will enter into the details of the Spiritual Journey. My prayer for you is that as we share this revisiting of this experience, you will come to find your own point of true release from all that has hindered you from fully developing into the person God created you to be.

Peace to you.

Jesus is coming! Get ready for Him!