WEEKLY DEVOTION

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

“Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.” Psalm 119:104

Do you want to be wise? Do you want to have understanding? If so, let God teach you through His own Word, the Bible!

The psalmist writes: “O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.”

Our world is full of false ways and misguided directions. People, both knowingly and unknowingly, adopt beliefs and philosophies which lead to eternal ruin. They live their lives foolishly and without understanding, and they conclude their lives in fear and despair. But it doesn’t have to be like that. God has given us a witness to the truth. Through His Word, He seeks to teach us to see ourselves as we really are and to know Him and the salvation He has provided for us in His Son. He seeks to teach us of Him and His ways and to lead us in the way everlasting!

The Bible tells us of the Holy Scriptures that they “are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:15, 16).

Do you want to know the truth? Do you want to know the way of salvation God has provided for you in His Son? Do you want to know how God would then have you live your life for Your Savior? Read His Word and meditate upon it! Study your Bible and turn from the many false ways into the way that the LORD God would have you go! Repent of your sinful ways and trust in Christ’s blood shed for you upon the cross for the full and free forgiveness of all your sins; and then, in the wisdom which God gives through His Word, walk with Jesus, your Savior!

O Spirit of the living God, move me to read and study Your inspired Word and grant me a heart of wisdom to understand and turn from my sinful ways to Jesus my Savior for pardon and forgiveness. And then teach me Your ways that I might walk in them. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

[Devotion by Randy Moll. Scripture from the King James Version of the Bible.]

Opinion, Pages 9 on 01/05/2011