Daily Devotion

June 13, 2006

Psalms 27:11-12 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.  (12) Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

A good teacher friend of mine often challenges her students with the question, “Are you teachable?”  

We need to ask ourselves that question.  Am I teachable?  Is it easy for the LORD to lead and guide me?  Am I a problem to Him?  Would I want ME as a “ student”?

The problem that I think the LORD faces in teaching us is that He leads us in a “plain” path.  Our flesh likes to pride itself in the complicated, the smart, the gaudy; but the path of the LORD is usually plain, simple, self-effacing; humiliating by its simplicity.  

God’s greatest military heroes were asked to do some of the most ridiculous things but when they obeyed, they won His battles.  Who ever heard of winning a war where you outnumbered one to a thousand, by breaking pots, hiding torches, and blowing trumpets and screaming your head off in the middle of the night? But that’s just what Gideon did (Judg 7:20)!  And who would have been crazy enough to obey God when He said that in order to conquer one of the most impregnable cities of their day, they should walk around it seven times with the Ark of the Covenant, and again, blow their trumpets and scream their heads off? And yet, that’ s just what Joshua did (Jos 6:20).

The apostle Paul was one of the smartest men alive in the first century A.D.  One could have thought that his intellectual prowess was the success in his winning the intellectual and wisdom hungry Greeks, but in order to give total glory to God, he determined to put aside his carnal wisdom in favor of projecting the simple power of the Holy Spirit.

So it is, my friend, that when you allow God to lead you in His “plain” path, He will deliver you from your enemies, help you win the victories, and the testimony of false witnesses will not touch your soul.

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:

1Co 2:2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Patrick Lumbroso
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