Thursday, October 9, 2008

Psalm 17

Scripture

Psalm 17

Verse 4 I have followed your commands, which have kept me from going along with cruel and evil people.

Verse 15 But because I have done what is right, I will see you. When I awake, I will be fully satisfied, for I will see you face to face.


Observation

The Goal
In verse 4 we see that following God's commands keep us on the right path. The goal of life is to know God. To do that we follow His commands, His Word. To know God is to know His Word.

The Reward
Verse 15 tells us what we can expect when we follow God. When we know and follow God our reward is eternal life.


Application

Keeping our focus on God and learning His word is sometimes difficult. The world seems to penetrate into our lives and can easily begin to take over. We need to be very careful what we let in, I need to turn off the TV more and focus more on study and prayer.


Prayer

Lord, please help me to better manage my time so that I can grow spirtually. Help me to keep out those worldly influences so that I can better focus on you.

1 comment:

Michelle M. said...

Thanks for your comment on my blog. I can't believe that you had THREE under ONE for a little bit. How in the world did you do it? I thought it was difficult having two under two- haha!