What's Wrong?

I felt uncomfortable and didn't know why. I reached for my pullover pocket a short while later to put a note in it for myself, but it wasn't there. Knowing it wasn't on the other side of my shirt, I instinctively glanced down anyway—but my top was on backward. When the Holy Spirit deals with God's children's hearts, telling us something is wrong, we sometimes look elsewhere to avoid learning the obvious. But trying to escape His pinpointing our sin and, with laser-like light, zeroing in on what is awry is pointless: "The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly" (Prov 20:27). Our heart's uneasiness is His cue that something is "backward," and He wants us to confess the sin, turn from the cause (repent), and face Him, asking for forgiveness. Only then will He forgive and cleanse (1 John 1:9)—He is faithful to restore.