A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.
We live in an age where self-awareness, self-esteem, and personal experience are viewed as the pinnacle of things to be desired. From drugs to New Age religions to psychoanalsysis, people are encouraged to "expand their horizons", "get in touch with their inner self", and find their own truth, which is true (of course) simply because they believe it. That is not wisdom. People earnestly seek after that kind of worldly wisdom, even though it is, according to this Proverb, folly.
What we as Christians should be trying to discover is not our own heart...but the heart of God. Then, only after we have a as clear a picture as we can grasp of that, do we look to our own heart and find in how many ways it does not measure up. If people today would spend more time worrying about "am I right WITH GOD?" and less time worrying about "what seems right TO ME?", many people who are seeking purpose and not finding it would do find it. And many of us who are running around trying to find something fulfilling would find ourselves satisfied.
We, as Christians in particular, are looking in all the wrong places for fulfillment. Why don't we stop looking for fulfillment in the latest entertainment, the biggest house, and the outward show of religion and start looking for it in knowing God's heart, giving Him praise, and doing His will?
Challenge for today: Seek God in such a way that you stop seeking yourself and your own desires. As the old song says
Turn your eyes upon Jesus.
Look full in His wonderful face.
And the things of Earth will go strangely dim
In the light of His glory and grace."
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