Daily devotion

April 11, 2006

Psa 119:117 KJV  Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.

“Blessed Assurance” that comes to the soul upheld by the Creator.  Truly blessed is the one who has confidence that no matter what, he will never be left nor forsaken (Heb 13:5).

But full confidence and trust lie in the assurance of obedience to His statutes.  How can we expect to be protected when we run outside His protective precepts?   We cannot claim God’s armor if we run outside of the walls of His will for our lives.

And what about obedience!  The pure Word of God is so direct, so straight, so easy to understand, but today’s semantics have blurred our understanding of the standards of right and wrong, so just as predicted by the prophet, we now have a famine of hearing the Words of God (Amos 8:11). We need the Holy Ghost to interpret the Word in our hearts so that we understand them and be protected by His statutes again.  

Only His Word empowered by the Holy Spirit can help us find the protective walls of his statutes to keep us away from the dangers of the spiritual inconsistencies and conformities that are so prevalent in the world today, and be safe.

“Lord, I ask you today to make Your Word clear in my mind.  Take away all the excusing arguments created by double-talk semantics, and help me to call a spade a spade in my life.  Help to realize that a lie is a lie, no matter how many other people say and accept it.  Help me to know that a murmur is a murmur, and a grievance unto you.  That covetousness is a sin, even though accepted in our Western civilization, and that so are anger, pride and selfishness, not psychological conditions and sicknesses. Make your word clear to me again so that I can have respect unto them and be safe.”

2Pe 1:19-21 KJV  We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:  (20)  Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.  (21)  For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
2Pe 2:1-9 KJV  But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.  (2)  And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.  (3)  And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.  (4)  For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;  (5)  And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;  (6)  And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;  (7)  And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:  (8)  (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)  (9)  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: