May 24

Psalm 119:17-32

If God were to deal with us with only strict adherence to the law, we'd all be dead by now.  I believe it's His desire that by the light and power of His Holy Spirit we learn to understand the wonders of His Word which takes us beyond just learning to memorize Scripture and adhering to laws. As the Psalm says, we are strangers on earth, we need to know how to navigate our way through this broken world. Usually when people are given are rules to follow the feel restricted but through Scripture God wants to open and illuminate our hearts and minds to live out of a relationship of being in love with our Savior while we are here. That's what produces the longing in our souls. As we read Scripture the character of God is defined, which takes us beyond being restricted and in fact gives us freedom.  Divine Wisdom is found in knowing Christ and the only way to do that is to read the Word.  We find grace in following the path of faith. Now obviously God knows we are going to mess up. However, the Holy Spirit will convict us and bring us to our knees and back on course. When we repent, we find comfort in His word and above all else, we find forgiveness at the foot of the cross.  Once we admit we are wrong, God responds with grace. It's there, on our knees, that we that we begin to grasp how desperately we need to stay focused on Jesus.  I pray now that we have chosen the way of truth, we look up and see that God is good to His servants and has opened our eyes to see the beauty in His law, which became flesh.  I pray we follow in the freedom that God set in our hearts when we made Jesus Lord of our lives.



Randi