RASNs Will Never do This

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way. (Psalm 139:23-24)

True repentance involves a willingness to be “searched.” The Psalmist admitted that there could well be a “hurtful way” within him. A serious heart problem. And he asks the Lord to search him out in the deepest recesses of his being to discover any wicked thought, motive, or attitude – sin to sum it up in one word. He wants the Lord to shine light, to expose, and to then replace any such sin with “the everlasting way.” This is humility. It is repentance. It is confession.

A RASN (reviler, abusers, sociopath, narcissist) will never pray such a prayer. Why? Because he or she will never acknowledge any kind of sin, fault, error, blame, guilt on their part. They live a lie. They are a sham. Their only “prayer” is that of the self-righteous Pharisee who boasted of his fake righteousness to the Lord.

The greatest terror the RASN fears is that a light might shine upon him and strip away his disguise for all to see who and what he really is. Darkness hates the light. But for the true people of God, for those who are genuinely righteous with the righteousness of Christ, this searching of the heart, this divine exposure of everything within, is something we hunger and thirst for.

Seek the LORD, All you humble of the earth Who have carried out His ordinances; Seek righteousness, seek humility. Perhaps you will be hidden In the day of the LORD’S anger. (Zephaniah 2:3)

Will the RASN be hidden from the Lord’s wrath on the Day? No. He will be crying for the ricks and hills to fall upon him and hide him from that great light. But it will not work. He will be found out and his sin exposed for all the world to see.