You want to be used by God.
Most people do. That's not the problem.
The problem is what you're not asking alongside it.
You've been praying use me for years. But when did you last pray search me? Not confess the things you already knew needed confessing. Not apologize for the patterns you've already named. Actually open the interior and say — try me. See if there be any wicked way in me.
Because here's what nobody tells you about gifting: God's grace can flow through an unsearched vessel. His gifts are without repentance. He'll move through you before He's finished with you. And you'll mistake the movement for approval.
That's the danger. Not sin. Assumption.
Matthew 5:8 — blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Not the gifted. Not the anointed. The pure. Because purity isn't about your record. It's about your lens. And a dirty lens doesn't tell you it's dirty. It just quietly distorts everything you think you're seeing clearly.
David understood this at his lowest. He didn't use God's continued presence as evidence that he was fine. He ran back and asked God to look at what David couldn't see in himself.
That's the posture. Not performance. Not more activity. Just — here. Look at what's underneath.
The refiner sits and watches until he sees his own reflection in the metal. That's his standard. Not useful. Reflective.
Let him sit with you today.
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