Year 5, Day 171: Psalm 19-20

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Discipleship Focus: Guidance

• Guidance: God grants us His guidance.  Sometimes this guidance is God leading us away from temptation.  Sometimes this guidance is helping us to follow in a direction for which He has chosen.  Our default position should be to wait for God’s guidance and then follow when it comes.

Psalm 19 is a great psalm for looking at the guidance of the Lord.  This whole psalm is largely about the Law of the Lord.  As the psalm says many times, “The Law of the Lord is perfect.”  “The Law of the Lord is pure.”  “The Law of the Lord is true.”  There is much that the Law of the Lord can do.

The Laws of the Lord make the simple seem wise because of the guidance they bring into life.  The Laws of the Lord preserve because of the guidance they bring into life.  The Laws of the Lord warn us.  The Laws of the Lord cause us to rejoice because of the guidance they bring into our life.  The Laws of the Lord protect us from hidden faults.  The reality is that life is better lived with the laws of the Lord giving us guidance.

The Lord’s guidance also allows us to rise and stand up straight while others collapse and fall.  The Lord’s guidance causes us to place our trust in Him while others trust in the things of this world.  The Lord’s guidance teach us what it is that should be our heart’s delight.

It is the guidance of the Lord that truly makes life enjoyable.  Without His guidance, our lives would be spent in fleeting pursuit of things that don’t necessarily matter.  But with His guidance, we can live lives that are full of meaning.

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