Meditation Verse for today                                    

Scripture. 

The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 

The Statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart:  the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: the judgements of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Psalm 19:7-9  KJV

David has discovered that the Law of God is perfect.  The perfection of who God is and what He stands for will convert a seeking heart. It cannot deny the Truth it sees. 

God is Good and at the same time, greatly to be feared.  He holds the soul of man in His hands and His Judgement is Just.

When we have a healthy fear of the Lord which is a recognition of Who He is, we have gained knowledge that is pure and will be an anchor that holds us to God as we live our daily life.

Let us live with the knowledge of a fearsome and all powerful God who loves us and has made a Way for us to be reconciled to Him so that any fear is converted to love and respect for Him.

Prayer

Lord, thank You for Your Perfection and Power.  Help me to acknowledge these Godly qualities and place in me a desire to dive deeper into Your Word so that I may grow in Truth.  Amen.

It is an ill day for a people when their gods are worse than themselves. Charles Spurgeon

Friend, ask yourself if you worship anything in your life other than the Lord Jesus.

Worship to God is anything we believe in that replaces Him.

Some people love their animals more than the One who created them and allowed them in your life. He is the One who worked all things together so that you could have that special connection with your animal. So you see, He is above the love you have for the animal. He is the One to be praised for the love connection you have with your special creature. Both you and the creature should be worshipping Him.

Be careful not to worship your "self" as many do in these days. 

The many other great religions based on man's conjectures and traditions and observations in the natural world of the heavens, and human relations are all considered by Holy God to be idol worship.

Many create their own beliefs based on the "goodness" of their own minds - what they would do in certain circumstances.

Let the word of God be your guide for daily living so that you do not go down the paths of unrighteousness.

God is always calling us back from these paths, but many keep their back turned pretending not to hear Him.

He is not fooled and we will see at the Judgement that we only fooled ourselves.

Today is the day to investigate our own soul's beliefs and bring them into line with what Almighty God has said in the Word of God.

For those who do not know or do not have acces to the Bible; God tells us clearly all through the Bible, that His Son is Who we must love and honour in order for our soul to have eternal Life.

He is Jealous for His Son who He sent to be a Sacrifice for our sins and He will not tolerate any idols we worship in place of Jesus.

If you were to pass from this world to-night, would He receive you based on this pivotal fact from His Word?

Friend, a believer is required to forgive and forgive often and always.

The following prayer written by Charles Spurgeon the eloquent English pastor of the 1800's is a wonderful example of how to pray and what to say in prayer to God. Use it often making sure that your request is one that would bring glory and honour to Jesus the Son.

"Lord, thou knowest the straits I am in; thou knowest how undeserving I am; thou knowest what a poor, undone creature I am before thee; but if thy dear Son shall help and save me the very angels will stand and wonder at His mighty grace, and so it will bring glory to Him, therefore I entreat thee be gracious unto me."

Spurgeon goes on...

Be sure thou art certain to prevail if thou canst plead that it will glorify Christ, and surely thou wouldest not wish to have a thing that would not glorify him. Thy prayer shall always be prevalent, if thy heart be in such a state that thou art willing to have or not to have, according as it will honour thy Lord: if it will not glorify Christ, be thou more than content to do without the choicest earthly good; but be thou doubly grateful when the boon that is granted tends to bring honour to the ever dear and worshipful name of Jesus.

"For Christ's sake." It is a precious word; dwell upon it, and lay up this sentence in the archives of thy memory-the Father will do anything for the sake of Jesus Christ His Son.

Friend, the Lord requires we have a tender heart.

The hard-heartedness within us is a barrier that the Lord asks us to breakdown.

The damage we have done to our hearts must be undone.

Where we have built walls and fortresses to keep us from being hurt, we must begin to trust our Saviour to work with us and to lead the Way out of the maze of bad memories and depression, and untruths that we have allowed to become part of our soul's baggage.

These things have made us emotionally and physically sick.

The Lord is asking us everyday for access to these areas within us so He can calm us, apply the healing balm and renew our minds and hearts.

Sinfulness hardens our hearts also and we are wise to begin to recognize when the Holy Spirit convicts us that something we are contemplating doing, is sinful.

We love to harden our lovely soul and spirit with the hard shell of sin. Layers and layers we allow as we go deeper into the madness of the sins we engage in.

We are wise to remember He is with us and will walk us through the pain of cutting off the sin and hacking away at the hard shell to expose our spirit to the fresh rain of our Lord's Love for us.

Make it a plan to be open to His Lead and follow Him like a child - open to the new experience of higher spirituality.

This will expose a tender heart. One the Lord will be pleased to have a relationship with.

Matthew  7:24  Therefore whoever heareth these sayings of Mine, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.

Friend, we all need a Solid Foundation. Otherwise the ways of the world will knock us around, storms will overtake us and lightning will destroy us.

This life brings afflictions and strife of all kinds. Just when we think things could get no worse, along comes something to show us that evil is even more horrible than we imagined.

But God's Word to us is that we should be wise and build our "house" on the Solid Foundation of faith in His Son, Jesus.

There must be a reason for God to give us this information. He is not superflous in His Words to us. He is always succinct.

He says, listen to Him and gather the knowledge of what He has written by the Holy Spirit revealing to certain men whom God deemed fit to carry His Word in their hearts and follow His Lead by leaving them for future generations.

Jesus is the Solid Rock. Belief in Him and His Diety is the beginning of Knowledge and Wisdom.

When trials and sufferings come, we turn to Him in whom we have built up a great faith; in His Ability to help, and we speak the Word of God to Him, with great inner strength that knows that He will do what He has said He will do for us, in His Word.

So, it is important to know the Bible. It is a Book worth spending time reading with a heart that seeks to know Wisdom and Knowledge.

In Him we have Hope for our troubles to be given to Jesus, to be untangled and sorted. We just need the belief that He brings all things together for good for us; in His timing and for His great pleasure.

Stand on the Solid Rock Foundation and never let the winds and stormy seas move you from your belief that He will finish the good work that He has begun in you. Be the willing soul. Do not be afraid of what man can do to you, but of what a Holy and All Powerful God must do to an unbelieving soul when it stands beefore Him at the Judgement, having been against Almighty God, it's whole life.

Now is the acceptable time for you to stand on the Solid Rock Foundation and begin to read His Word.

Friend, let's face it, we are unworthy to know Almighty God, let alone receive anything good from Him.

But this is the Way of the Lord. He knows our unworthiness and when we admit we are unworthy, He clothes us in his Righteousness so He can have a relationship with us.

This is known as the Grace of God.

He is full of compassion for us. He has seen the roads of darkness we have gone down. He is aware of what has caused us to be the sinners we are.

But, when we look up and out of ourselves we give ourselves a chance to know the Light of the world, where before we have only seen darkness; we moved and had a life within that dark world.

Without the Mercy and Grace of God, this world would have destroyed itself long ago.

Jesus stepped up to the line that God drew when He said, "Enough! Evil's time has come."  He came to make a Way out of the darkness for those of us who desire it, who are tired of the unbearableness of being sinful.

Friend, we do struggle, but He is with us. Acknowledge Him and lean on Him and love Him.

Die daily to the old life and be filled with Hope, Love, Light, Forgiveness and walk uprightly full of worship for the One Who is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

Allow Him to show you the thing that must die today, and every day.

Be a willing child - not wilful! Joyful and happy! You know the King! He loves you!

Friend, there is a place where the Lord God Almighty will commune with you!

Isaiah 51:4 Hearken unto Me, My people, and give ear unto Me.

Isaiah 46:3 Hear Me, all you whom I carry in My bosom.

Friend, He speaks in the silence.

When we choose to find a place where we can be silent before Him and let the cares of the world drift away and be focused on Him - His Diety, His Love, His Wisdom, His Truth - this is when we get the little snippets of Golden Truth for our lives.

When we have a longing to know Him and and we want and need Him in our lives, He cannot leave us.

He is drawn to us when our inner spirit is calling to Him. He will teach and guide us as much as we can stand when we show Him this kind of love and attention.

Friend, the Beauty of Who He Is, what He has done for us, the Truth that is undeniable, the Law that is Pure; it's all so glorious.

It's all found in the silence of one's life; the times when we are reclined in meditation.

Begin with silence in your outward life.

Have nothing to say!

Oh, how we struggle with that! But that part is the beginning of knowledge.

Hosea 2:14 I will lead her/him into solitude and there I will speak to her/his heart.

It is His Will. Practise silence. Become skilful in this practise.

He will show you the Way and give you Peace and fill you with Love for Him.