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Week 24 – June 7, 2026 through June 13, 2026
This Week:
Brothers,
The Lord often invites us to slow down and let Him search what is really going on beneath the surface, and this feels like one of those weeks. As the pace of summer picks up, our calendars may be full, but our hearts can still feel scattered, weary, or distracted. The good news is that the God who called us to Himself is not guessing about us. He knows us completely, and in love He invites us to stop hiding and let Him shine His light into places we may have ignored for a long time. This week’s prayer is simple and courageous: “God, search me and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts” (Psalm 139:23, ESV). In Psalm 139 David confesses that the Lord has searched him and known him, that God discerns his thoughts from afar, and that there is nowhere he can flee from God’s presence. Inviting that kind of holy inspection is not about earning God’s love, but about bringing our real selves into the light of a love that is already ours in Christ.
Our yearly focus has been “Renew Your Mind,” and this is where renewal gets very practical. We often manage our own image, pretending certain patterns, attitudes, or secret sins are not as serious as they are. The Week 24 meditation reminds us that “we often hide from ourselves” and urges us to invite God to reveal the blind spots in our character that hinder our walk with Him. That is a countercultural move for men, because everything around us tells us to project strength, keep control, and never admit what is really going on inside. Yet Scripture shows that the Lord already knows every anxious thought and hidden motive, and in Christ He has set His steadfast love on us. When we ask Him to search us, we are not signing up for condemnation but stepping into honest fellowship where the Spirit can renew our minds, reshape our desires, and lead us “in the way everlasting” (Psalm 139:24, ESV). So as you read and pray this week, do not rush past that invitation. Sit with the Lord long enough to let Him put His finger on specific blind spots: a pattern of anger you excuse, a private habit you justify, or a relational wound you refuse to address. That exposure is not cruelty but mercy, the Father refusing to let His sons settle for half-hearted lives when He has promised full, mind-renewing grace in Christ.
Prayer:
God, search me and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts. (Psalm 139:23)
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
Meditation:
We often hide from ourselves. Invite God to reveal the blind spots in your character that hinder your walk with Him.
Quote:
John Murray
“The fear of God takes possession of our hearts when we are conscious that there is no recess of our being to which His knowledge does not extend, and so we long that He should purge what His gaze discovers.”
Events:
Thursday – June 11
- Please note – we are NOT having Bible Study this morning.
Saturday – June 13
Morning Bible Study – 7am
- This week we are continue the study of Leviticus. We’re covering Chapter 16.
- Study Guide “Week 10 – The Day of Atonement”.
Book Recommendation:
Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate by Jerry Bridges
Psalm 139:23 is a man’s prayer for courageous self-examination: “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.” Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges is one of the most practical tools I know to actually live out that prayer in the real pressures, responsibilities, and temptations of a man’s everyday life.
Bridges exposes the “respectable” sins men often ignore—anxiety about money and work, frustration and anger at home, discontentment with our season of life, pride in our achievements, selfishness with time, lustful and covetous thoughts, and the subtle ways we judge and criticize others. These are the very “offensive ways” Psalm 139 asks God to reveal, not just the obvious public failures, but the quiet patterns of the heart that are shaping our marriages, parenting, friendships, and leadership. Many men will tackle pornography or addiction but never allow God to confront their impatience, harsh words, unthankfulness, or workaholic selfishness; Bridges gently, biblically, and directly puts those sins on the table.
Yet this is not a book designed to shame men, but to free them. Bridges builds every chapter on the gospel, insisting that the only way to face our hidden sins honestly is to be rooted in Christ’s finished work and dependent on the Holy Spirit’s power. For a man who takes Psalm 139:23 seriously, Respectable Sins offers a structured, Scripture-saturated way to pray, “Lord, show me what I can’t see, and change me where I can’t change myself,” and then to actually walk in deeper repentance, humility, and holiness.
New Blog Posts This Week:
- Covenantal Fidelity: Righteousness or Wickedness
- What Does It Mean for Men to Be Mature in Christ—And How Do We Get There?
- When Minutes Feel Like Hours: The Masculine Battle with Waiting
Coram Deo,
GraceMen
