Devotion for Wednesday, May 8, 2019

“O how I love Your law!  It is my
meditation all the day.  Your
commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever mine.  I have more insight than all my teachers, for
Your testimonies are my meditation.” 
(Psalm 119:97-99)

What are your boundaries?  Not the imposition of what other’s might
think, but your personal boundaries.  The
law of the Lord is only as good for you as it becomes personal for you.  We often have external cultural norms that
guide how we behave, but it is the internal boundaries that count with God.  Meditate upon the law of the Lord and allow
them to become your boundaries.

Lord, help me to see the conflict between what I say I believe and
those things on the inside that truly guide me. 
Allow my heart to be softened to see the truth.  Guide me into reflection that what You say
may become who I am.  Let me not resist
You when I do not resist the world. 
Through Your Spirit, search me deep within that who I am may become what
You are making me to be.

Lord Jesus, You promised a new life.  Create in me that new life that sheds itself of this world’s promptings to become what I have always been intended to be.  Guide me in the goodness of what has always been true.  Lead me in the way of everlasting life.  In You, O Lord, is the hope of all people, for only in You can we find our way through the fog of this world.  Lead me in meditation this day, O Lord.  Amen.

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