Wednesday Reading: Psalm 119:101-104
Key Verse: Psalm 119:102
102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
Devotion:
Once you read through God’s Word and begin to understand it you will probably come to the conclusion that it is going to be a hard thing to follow God’s Laws. If you have not come to that conclusion, then you are either a very strong person or you are fooling yourself! God’s Word is here so that we can know what is right and wrong; that is just one aspect of God’s Word. Without that knowledge of what is right and wrong we would not be able to know that we are going against God’s wishes.
Trying to keep God’s Laws and His ways is probably going to be an uphill battle for most of us because we have grown up in a world where we have been open to so many lies and so much corruption. But just because we see it as an uphill struggle does not mean that it should be impossible for us. God is also the one who wants to stand by us and to hold us as we face those temptations and those struggles. He is the one who wants to lift us up when we fall so that we can try again. He is the one who wants to teach us the difference between right and wrong so that we can best be prepared for what lies ahead.
God’s Word is what will be our guide and our encouragement. It is God’s Word that will open our eyes to what is right and what is wrong. It is His Word that will encourage us from the inside to keep all that is right in our hearts and to strengthen us to face up to those things that we will be able to identify as wrong. God’s Word is the catalyst that will allow us to separate the two through Christ Jesus.
No matter how bitter we may find the first bite as we dig into God’s Word we will be able to see that it is good. No matter how much we do not want to go there and be reminded of the things that are wrong, we need to know them before we can avoid them. No matter how difficult you may find accepting the truth in the beginning, is it is something that has to be accepted before you can move forward with Christ. Once we have accepted God’s Word as the truth then we are able to understand a whole lot more of that same truth. Just as we may find a single catalyst that will enable us to suddenly get to grips with trigonometry or algebra, that same spark of realisation on the truth will allow us to move forward with Christ in our hearts.
Points to Ponder:
Are you stuck in a rut?
Do you know God’s Word can lift you up?
