Devotion for Sunday, September 29, 2019

“Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, whose mouth
speaks lying words, and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood – that
our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as
pillars,” (Psalm 144:11-12a)

There are those in the world who
speak with lying tongues.  Their mouths
are full of deceit.  It may be
politically incorrect to say there are liars, but the Lord has declared that
there are those who will not abide by the truth.  You, however, have the words of eternal life
before you.  Will you walk in the way of
truth or in the way of those who speak with deceitful tongues?

Lord, open my ears to hear the truth. 
Guide me according to Your goodness to see that in You alone is all that
is needed.  Guide me according to Your
goodness to walk in the way of the righteous. 
Lead me according to Your will to live the kind of life that Your grace
calls me to, that I may be upright in Your sight.  Help me now and always to see that in You
alone is all hope.

Come, Holy Spirit, and minister
to my heart that I may see the goodness of the way of salvation.  Lead me in righteousness for Your sake that I
may learn humbly from You.  Let the words
of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight.  Guide me now and always to live into the life
to which I have been called by grace. 
Lead me, Holy Spirit, in the way of life.  Amen.