Starting over begins with making a decision - with a desire for a new start. Often in life, we wish that we could erase things or do things over. When this is the case, where do you start? You should go to God in prayer first and let Him search you out, then move in the direction that He tells you to go.

* "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." (Psalm 139:23-24)

We have to search ourselves and it needs to be a thorough search - otherwise, why bother? It needs to be all or nothing.

* "And though, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek Him, He will be found of thee; but if thou forsake Him, He will cast thee off for ever." (I Chronicles 28:9)

God knows even our imaginations. He knows us inside and out - better than we even know ourselves.

We should want to search ourselves and desire for God to help us with that search. We should want it to be a complete and thorough search.

* "Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?" (II Corinthians 13:5

We all have needs. What are we doing with those needs and how are we trying to get those needs met?

* "For if any man be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was." (James 1:23-24)


* "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." (Proverbs 3:5-6)


As soon as we quit asking God to help us see ourselves as He sees us, we forget and lose the advantage of God helping us so that we can change.

There has to be a transformation - a change. Ask God to show you and don't "put it away" but take care of the needs as God shows you what to do. Don't just recognize the need, but do something about it.

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