Psalm 17
Baby-sitting, so a very short post today… I have avoided the ways of the violent. My steps have held fast to Your paths; my feet have not slipped. (vv. 4b-5) My immediate thought as I read through these verses was that if I were able to avoid the violent and stay on God’s paths and kept my feet from slipping… If I were able to do all that, then I’d still have to deal with myself – my mind, those other temptations and distractions all around me. The only way that I can get on top of all that is to spend time in prayer and reading – and even then distractions abound! I resonate with the apostle Paul in Romans 7:24-25, Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin. Too true!
Happy baby-sitting, Fred!
I was so encouraged by vv. 7-8. Show me/us your great love… What a love story we have!