MAY 29

Psalm 19:7-14
Memorise Psalm 19:12
“Who can understand his errors?...”

Our outward actions – what comes out of our mouths, and the inward thoughts and intents of our hearts need to be aligned. The visible and invisible must be one and the same - sincere. A good heart will be reflected outwardly. But a deceitful heart can reflect both bad and good – such good is not really good in the sight of God who sees our hearts like no man, even our own selves. Our God is an all-seeing God.

It is the words of Jehovah, our strength and author of salvation that we are meditating upon and to Him alone our meditation must “be acceptable”. He is our Creator, the Rock who gives us His feeble creatures strength, the loving God who sent His Son to redeem us who were once condemned for our sins. Are we conscious of this great God, when we meditate upon His Word? Do we fear Him, and cherish the very words that He has so graciously bestowed upon us?

It is relatively easy to say and then do the ‘right’ things to portray a spiritual Christian or to please others. We often do the right things because we know it’s the right thing to do, but inwardly our hearts feel quite the opposite, or are half-hearted. Such an attitude is unacceptable. We must not delude ourselves into thinking that we can hide anything from God. He sees into the innermost recesses of our hearts, things that we may not want to admit even to ourselves or may not even be aware of because we deceive ourselves.

We need to remember what we are meditating upon – the perfect, pure and righteous Word of God. Further, we sinners as we meditate are communing with and before the holy and almighty LORD. Our attitude should be one of humility, reverence and worship.

Thought: What is a presumptuous sin? (See Psalm 19:13)
Prayer: May my heart be pure and free of all sin when I meditate upon Your perfect and holy Word.