PSALM 119 VERSE 37
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
and give me life in your ways.
GO AND GET DIGGING
I love the psalms, especially Psalm 119, it is just amazing. Many times, I have read this psalm right through at once, yes, all 176 verses of it.
Every verse is a nugget of gold, its great theme is the word of God, the glory of the bible is something to behold.
We need to fall in love with the word of God, this is no mere book, it is like no other book. When we read it, we only make a pinprick on its surface, even if read it continuously for 50 years, we cannot plumb its depths.
The psalmist makes many great statements and here is one of them.
I admit that I have a problem, I can get addicted to worthless things, such as cell phone etc, I can say, I need to keep up with the news, I need to communicate with my friends.. WRONG, this is my confession, just being honest.
Basically, anything is worthless, if it hinders your walk with God and draws you away from your real mission, which is to grow in faith and share the gospel.
I know that I can sit there for hours, yes hours playing cell phone, going from one website to another, it is like a downhill spiral, we should pray this prayer like the psalmist did.
How can we grow in our spiritual life and learn the ways of God? They aren’t learned by watching the tv and computer, they are gained by reading, studying and digging into the word of God.
In Ephesians 5;16, we are told to redeem the time, how are we to do this;
Soak ourselves in the word of God, it must be our focus, turn off the tv and tune in to God’s word, and then go and get digging.
God bless you
KK
SPIRITUAL GIFTS WITHOUT LOVE = NOTHING
1 Corinthians 13 (King James Version KJV)
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Paul has talked about spiritual gifts in Chapter 12 and he will go on to talk about them more in Chapter 14.
Here though, He puts it all into perspective.
Paul says that our lives can and will be like a sounding brass/ tinkling cymbal without love. A tinkling cymbal is hardly loud enough to be heard in the world… our works will have no effect without love.
Likewise, if we have not love, all our works are like sounding brass… they are all show. We do great things… but without love they are useless… Amen
So are believers who have not love.
So is a church that does not have love.
Both of these things mentioned in Verse 1, were part of pagan worship (cymbals and brass), so Paul is saying that if you as an individual believer, or your church have not True Agape Love controlling their lives, then they are just like the pagans.
The thing that makes Christians different is their love for not just for one another, but a dying world. The special dynamic makes the church stand out. In Verses 3-7, Paul shows us how love operates in practical ways.
Are you or your church easily offended?
Are you or your church full of pride?
Are you or your church seeking its own way?
Then you or your churches are not operating in True Agape Love.
These are not my words, but God’s words. We need to examine our love walk in view of this chapter?
Have you ever heard an orchestra, tuning up? You cannot make out a true sound, it is only when the conductor comes onto the platform and takes control that the orchestra plays in unison. Your life Believer and that of your church must be under the Lordship of Christ. Is your life under the Lordship of the divine conductor…? Jesus?
When one’s love walk is not right, we are too loud or too quiet. We need to repent and get our love walk right with our fellow believers. How can we love the world, when we can’t even love other believers? This Command to Love means everyone, even those we don’t fully agree with on every point of doctrine, and it means that we have to love believers in other denominations!
Goodness me… just imagine if we all truly loved each other from the heart… what an example that would be to the world.
And how the world would be changed by seeing believers love each other from the heart. We sing that song they will know we are Christian’s by our love. Does the world around us, know we are Christians, by the love we show one for another?
Let us show our love in practical ways to our fellow believer’s.
God bless you