1 To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul;
2 in you I trust, O my God.
Do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
3 No one whose hope is in you
will ever be put to shame,
but they will be put to shame
who are treacherous without excuse.
4 Show me your ways, O LORD,
teach me your paths;
5 guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
6 Remember, O LORD, your great mercy and love,
for they are from of old.
7 Remember not the sins of my youth
and my rebellious ways;
according to your love remember me,
for you are good, O LORD.
I really love these 2 sentence " Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long." This is from David, the king of isreal, a humble man of God, a man with faith.
Imagine you have everything, and you have power and money and even your army...are you still willing to commit to God and ask him to guide you so humblely. Sometime people are strange, when we had difficult time we ask for his help and his provision, but after God help us come over this tough time and he blessed us ,then we just easily turn away and forgot every blessing from God, and every single step that God walked with us...we sometime just forgot and thought everything is from our "hard work".....but God is still in the same place with his open arm, he is waiting us to come back to him and realize that everything was from him , and we do need his guidance for everything we do..."and my hope is in you all day long"....
How do we receive God's guidance? The first step is to want to be guided and to realize that God's primary guidance system is in his word--the Bible. The endless knowledge found in God's word. By reading the bible and constantly learning from it, we will gain the wisdom to perceive God's direction for our lives. We may be tempted to demand ansers from God, but David asked for direction. When we are willing to seek God, learn from his word, and obey his commands, then will we receive his specific guidance.
Yeah, a lot of times we think too highly of ourselves.
ReplyDeleteRomans 12:3
"For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you."
With the measure of faith dealt to us, we need to use it to follow God's ways! No matter how high our achievements in this world are, we're still a bunch of sheep (sheeps are dumb). We need to follow the sheperd at all times!