RIGHT WALK ON STRAIGHT STREET

Verse for Today: Friday, October 15, 2010

Psalms 27:11 - Teach me Your way, O Lord; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.

Learning is a process that we all go through at all ages and circumstances. There are always new things to learn, and unlearn things which are wrongly learned. This is how we correct our ways in our daily walk. We can easily recognize the Lord as our best teacher through the pages of the Bible. He is neither a task master nor a cruel educator, but a patient and loving teacher who takes us through various experiences to teach us newer lessons about Him and His ways. He teaches us at our level and according to our capacity which He enhances as per need. He wants us to learn from Him to know how to take each step of the way so that we will not go astray or falter on our walk. It is easy to recognize how the enemy of our souls wants to distract us from the right way. The enemy will use different attractions on our way to deceive us into thinking that his ways are good and beneficial. These detours from the way of the Lord seem to give us some temporary benefit, but they will all lead us to destruction and doom. These wrong ways will send leanness in our souls. They will deprive us of the opportunity to follow the Lord through the right path. When the enemy tries to lure us into ways of temporary satisfaction, the Lord leads us into eternal blessings. Often when we take the detours, we gain temporary earthly benefits at the expense of eternal blessings. Our lives are meant to touch the lives of others for the sake of the Lord, but these detours make us miss the valuable opportunity to create an impact for Heaven here on earth. So the Psalmist David makes his heart cry to the Lord, asking that he might be taught the ways of the Lord. David had written several wonderful Psalms in the past, but is convinced that he needed to learn more intensely lest he will falter. He had the desire to learn newer avenues in the will of God so that he could walk that way towards the edges of His ways. It is this deep desire that has enabled him to become the man after God's own heart.

Hello friend, are you a good learner? Do you have a deep craving to learn newer things about the pilgrimage that you are on at the moment? How good a listener are you? Has there been any time in your life when you felt that you had learned everything? Such a thought of not wanting to learn from the Lord will not come from the Spirit of God who always wants to help you learn newer and profitable lessons about the Lord and His ways so as to enable you to correct and tone up your ways with the Lord. The choicest men of God had to keep on learning from the Lord till the end of their lives, as they recognized that they were all men with feet of clay. They recognized that one of the marks of a follower of Jesus was the willingness and ability to learn. We see how Apostle Peter had to be taught even after 42 months of on-the-job training given by the Master Trainer Himself. All the disciples who ran away from the garden of Gethsemane had to learn how not to run away in times of adversity and serious threat to life. Apostle Paul had to keep learning newer things and so even in his last Epistle which he wrote just before his execution, he was asking for the Scriptures to be brought to him by Timothy. The more we learn about the Lord and His ways, the more we will realize how little we know and how much more we need to learn. Even after learning for a life time, it would be like we are still in the nursery school of faith. Today let us renew our desire to learn more about the Lord, and more from Him and His Spirit. May it be our prayer today that we learn how to walk in the straight path of the Lord so that the enemy who wants to catch us faltering will be disappointed. The Lord has already prepared our way and arranged for all our needs as we follow Him in His footsteps. So we can be on His way and walk without fretting about any thing, for He is the way and in Him we find absolute fulfillment of all that our hearts desire in this life.

Psalms 25:4 - Show me Your ways, O Lord, teach me Your paths.

Thought for Today
The best way to walk on straight path is to focus on and follow the footsteps of the Lord.

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