LIVING ACCORDING TO GOD'S WORD

FRIDAY 26 AUGUST 2022

God's Word is full of righteous laws which are beneficial to the soul, spirit and body. Therefore observing the law of the Lord is dependent on how we embrace the precious truths in His Word and apply it to ourselves. It also displays the process of gracefully receiving the best from God by yielding to His righteous decrees and wise counsels.

Reference: Psalm 119:24 New Living Translation (NLT) "Your laws please me; they give me wise advice."

Although the author is unknown, his attitude towards the law of God is considered as that which is pleasing, satisfying, delightful and acceptable to him. He is extremely pleased and over-joyous to walk according to the law of the Lord. So the author wrote this Scripture while in a celebratory mood, thereby acknowledging the significance of the pleasures he derived from God's established precepts.

How often do you celebrate God's Word? How well do acknowledge that they make you wise? The truth is that you may never be able to answer these questions correctly, if you don't delight in the Word and rejoice in meditating on it, let alone - desire to walk according to the dictates. Appreciating God's Word as His righteous laws is as entirely reasonable as seeking Him because you can never seek God successfully outside of His Word. When you make His Word a priority in your life, you'll be constantly filled with the unquenchable hunger and thirst for its laws or wise counsels and such voracious appetite and demand will continually satisfy your soul day and night.

The Word doesn't just give you wise advice, it is also able to make you wise when you understand the great insight into the revelation it conveys. The Word reveals to you more and more of God's character and nature, as well as the results of His wonderful deeds, which make up the sum total of divine wisdom and spiritual truths. The Word doesn't just give us wise counsel or make us wise, it reveals God's will to us, meaning that it enlightens us to know God's mind concerning anything about us, about life and about any situation which we encounter in life. In 2 Timothy 3:14-15, apostle Paul says, "But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (NIV). Pauline mission in Timothy's life was to condition him to remain confident in the truth of the Word which is able to make anyone wise.

Timothy already had manifold divine experiences because of the apt attention he paid to learning the Holy Scriptures from infancy and the strong conviction he had gained from them. For this reason, Paul saw it as befitting to inspire him with more courage to continue in those practices and righteous principles. Beloved, the act of focusing on the Word and meditating on the laws therein, is the sphere in which we receive divine wisdom and understanding, which in turn, position us to act with percipience, to exercise prudence and to deal wisely with others in the affairs of this life.

Finally, Psalm 119:9 reads, "How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word" (NIV). In other words, it's not enough to be pleased with the laws of the Lord and receive wise counsels from them, it is equally important to live according to wise counsels received in order to walk boldly on the path of purity. Shalom!

Scripture Reading - Proverbs 3:1; Psalm 119:16; Romans 7:22; James 1:23-25.

Exuberant Declaration: Dear Father in heaven, I thank you for the consciousness of my personal relationship with your laws in the passages of the Scripture. Your wisdom grants me divine encounters and empowers me to live the glorious life of faith in Christ Jesus. The thoroughness of the profound insights sourced from your laws activates your will in my life; it is significantly life-changing, and it enriches me with your good and perfect gifts. I'm joyfully and gratefully influenced by your perspectives because I derive pleasure in meditating on your precepts, in Jesus' Name, Amen!