Deuteronomy 17:7c – You must purge the evil from among you.

Psalm 44:20,21 – If we had spread out our hands to a foreign God, would not God have discovered it since He knows the secrets of the heart?

God has no tolerance for evil.  His word says that it must be consumed/destroyed.

On the early part of Deut.17, Moses talked about people who were choosing to worship something other than God and how God felt they should be handled.  I want to say that I don’t worship anything other than God, but I am not so sure that there isn’t something from the culture that hasn’t captured a part of my heart.  Could it be my desire to appear or dress in a certain way?  Could it be something that I feel I just must own?  If something else has captured my heart, keeping me from having a heart that is purely and fully seeking God, it is hard for me to admit that is a form of idolatry. In all honesty, however, I think that it is.  I need to purge or eliminate that evil from my heart. God knows if it is there ~ He has known it as He knows the secrets of my heart. (Ps 44:21)  I can’t hide it from God. My unwillingness to admit it to God (and myself) does not mean that He doesn’t know about it. I need to face that which I am holding onto as an idol and eliminate the evil so that I can be blameless before the Lord my God. (Deut.18:13) I want to be blameless.

Lord, open my eyes to see any evil that is present in my heart, particularly anything I am holding onto as an idol. You see it. Reveal it to me. I want to be willing to eradicate it from my soul ~ give me the strength to do that, give me the willingness to do that.  I long to be blameless before you.  Help me to do what it takes to eliminate the evil that lies within me.

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