Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Lord, the psalmist learned some painful lessons. How easily he used Your “Word” to justify his sinful behaviors. One of the devil’s most subtle lies is to make people think they are acting biblically if they declare a Scripture “in faith” and presume You must act as they [selfishly] want. Forget the personal conditions You require for the fulfillment of Your promises. Just quote the promise, or bits and pieces of the Scripture, and Bingo, like a genie in a bottle, You will grant their every wish. How foolish to think they can manipulate You, Lord.
Learning from his past presumptuous failures at taking Your promises out of context to fit his narrative, the psalmist saw through the devil’s trap and was not going to fall for it again. “Keep me from lying to myself,” he wrote about his life-altering decision. “Give me the privilege of knowing Your instructions.” He committed himself to learn and live by the truths of Your Word. “I have chosen to be faithful. I have determined to live by Your regulations,” (Psalm 119:29, 30).
May I not repeat the psalmist mistakes but order my actions to faithfully keep Your standards and values. Cementing Your promises in my heart is of uppermost importance to help “[k]eep me from presumptuous sins […] that I may be blameless before You,” (Psalm 19:13).
Manipulate You? Hardly, Lord. Your Word I will hide in my heart to not sin against You. Amen
THANKFUL 
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