Not Another Manic Monday
It’s Monday. How are we going to make it through this week? Hopefully better than we made it through last week if we resolve to stay close to the Lord. We learn how to do that in the four verses below from Ps. 119.
No doubt, challenges will come. But they don’t have to derail us if we’ve determined to hang on to God’s word. All I can say is David was able to hang on to God much of the time (we never forget Bathsheba) and we see how he did it from the verses below.
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Psa 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. |
Who doesn’t need life direction? Who couldn’t use a little discernment—a little light shed on the matter, or on all matters? God’s word brings that direction, discernment and light. Get in the habit of reading and meditating on it every day. Be accountable to someone if it’s tough for you to be faithful each day. Ask God to show you who that person should be. I did one time and that person called me within 2 minutes of just thinking of her name, and she asked me first if she could be accountable to me! |
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(106) I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. |
Next, determine that you will obey that light you get from God’s word. David swore he would keep it. That’s pretty serious. “Whatever you want, God, that’s what I promise I’ll do.” When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee. (Deut. 23:21) I hope it’s still possible, in our day and age, to be as serious about obeying God as David was in his day. |
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(107) I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word. |
If you have a lifestyle of reading, meditating on and obeying God’s word every day, then when you face challenges or afflictions, you have an arsenal of instructions, promises and comforts that God can use to quicken or enliven you. You can ask God to use the salve of his word to touch your soul. That is how you encourage yourself in God, without the need to run to others. |
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(108) Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments. |
Let praise be ever present in your communications with God as you read his word expecting him to teach and enlighten you. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. (Heb.13:15)
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