A Prayer For Divine Examination

"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 This Psalm sings of God's omniscience and omnipresence. And from it the poet infers two things: the overthrow of the wicked, and his own salvation. The close of the Psalm seems superfluous, redundant. Verse 1 stated: "O Lord, Thou hast searched me, and known me." And we are tempted to ask, why then the "Search me, O God, and know...