LIFE IN HIM

February 1

Psalms 119:40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.

There is cause and effect. It is only as long as we desire, long after His precepts, we can expect to be quickened* in His righteousness.

We seem to be ‘quickened’ or ‘made alive’, ‘strengthened’ by the things we ‘long for’, our desire. If we long for the vanity and glitter of the elements of the world, this is what becomes our life. Sad to say, the glories and vanities of the world are ephemeral, and we will rust, mold (Matthew 6:19-21), or even burn with them when on the Lord’s day, our works are tried by fire (1 Corinthians 3:13-15).

As Christians, if it is not His righteousness that quickens us, then whose? Our own? No righteousness will stand before the throne of God on that final day but that of the Son of God.

Let us therefore pray daily that our affections would be set on the things above, (Colossians 3:2) and not on things on the earth. Only by longing after his precepts we will be quickened in His righteousness.
Jeremiah 29:13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.