Self-Evaluation
Part 2 of 4
Shakespeare once wrote, “Know thy self”. He also wrote the line, “To thine own self be true”. Although I’m certain he didn’t have YHVH’s wisdom in mind when he wrote these words, I want to present them here with divine wisdom (Torah) in mind.
For the person that doesn’t understand personal strengths and weaknesses, their lives can more resemble an emotional roller coaster. And, those that don’t understand their limitations, and insist on doing things outside their scope of ability or calling, become as disasters waiting for a place to happen.
We all struggle with the challenge to understand our persons and the ability to remain loyal to it. No matter our status or level of wisdom, all of us will continue to struggle with this challenge as long as we are bound to this vessel of flesh. Even David, our great shepherd king, gave evidence of his struggle with this battle with his opening question of v. 12, “Who can understand his errors”.
Understanding one’s errors is a matter of the heart and, on one hand, is not as simple as one might think. For, it has plagued great minds down through the ages. Of this dilemma, it was Jeremiah that wrote in 17: 9, “The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; who can know it?”
The person that understands the nature of their heart has an inside track on knowing it and keeping it in control. It is the writer of Proverbs in 23: 7 that focuses on the origin of trouble in the heart when he says “As a man thinks in his heart so is he”. And, it is Yeshua that said in 15: 19 of Matthew, “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies…”
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