THURSDAY March 27th
Psalm 119:1
‘Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!’
‘A guide for the walk’
If you are someone who loves hiking, or like me who just enjoys walking and exploring different places, it always helps, in fact it is essential to have a map to direct and keep you on course. Recently while Elaine and I were in Rome, I had previously purchased a guide, and I usually make sure it is a guide that includes a small pull-out map. When we arrived at our hotel, we discovered they had a map of the city with the hotel marked out on it, so we took a copy to use as it was easier to carry in your pocket. However, after our first day of exploring, I discovered that the placement of the hotel on the map was incorrect, it was not too far out, maybe a few hundred metres, but sufficient to mean that anyone using the map would wonder where exactly the hotel was located.
God has given to us the perfect guide, it is faultless, and if we follow its instructions will ensure that we arrive safely at our eternal destination. We need as we have come onto the narrow path to follow what out text says and that is to ‘walk in the law of the Lord’, now, although the word law is used here in Psalm 119, we understand that it is a call for us to walk according to God’s instructions.
There are many hazards on our journey, there will be many other voices that will clamour for our attention, there will even be those things which will turn out to be incorrect like the map we picked up in the hotel, so we need to keep checking the map, God’s word, which he has given to us, not only to direct us, but also as a spiritual compass which will enable us to make good, proper and right choices in all areas of life.
Application: Are you feeling spiritually lost at this moment? When did you last consult the map, take time today to amend your course, get on the right track that God has prepared for you to walk. For we need to walk in his will and in his ways.
Psalm 119:9, 18-19, 33, 44-45, 105
‘How can a young man (young woman) keep his (her) way pure? By guarding it according to your word.’
‘Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!’
‘Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end.’
‘I will keep your law continually, forever and ever, and I shall walk in a wide place,
for I have sought your precepts.’
‘Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.’
Isaiah 2:3
‘Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.’