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GOD’S WORD OVER ME
MONDAY, JANUARY 15
Psalm 119:23-24

2 Timothy 3:15-17

 

“All scripture is given by

inspiration of God…”

 

GOD’S WORD OVER ME
 
Who is the authority of your life? Many people submit to their bosses because they decide their tenure in the company. They are scared to offend them, so they become “yes-men” to keep their rice bowl (their job). The words of these managers and CEOs are the compasses directing everything people in the lower echelon do. Not one word of these higher officials must be disobeyed. They become little gods to the ordinary people.
 
My ruler: When the psalmist is confronted with the words of the princes who are against him, he is confident. Not because he has the power to oppose them, but because he meditates on the Word of God. He ponders and communes with the Word and the Author of it. His trust is in the Giver of the Word whose wisdom is beyond measure. Read Romans 11:33-34.
 
My counsellor: To the psalmist, his counsellor is the Word of God. He takes advice and counsel from it. He does not seek the wisdom of the world. The words of the most renowned come only from his puny little brain. But the counsel from God’s Word is from the Omniscient God who knows and understands everything from the beginning to the end. Read Isaiah 55:8-9. He trusts in the wisdom of God as the best. There is nothing that can prevent his heart from relying on the Word of the Almighty.
 
Dear reader, who is your authority and guide? Do you entrust your future to men who do not even know their own future? Do you seek to follow the people who do not even know where they are going? Do you listen to the counsel of people who do not understand even their own feelings and emotions? Lean not on the flesh but cling to the wonder-working power of the Word that transforms a spiritually dead person into one who lives not just temporarily but eternally.
 
Find comfort in the Word of God which is the truth. Do not be like those men who may appear obedient to God’s Word but their deeds are not according to the truth. Let the Word be the sole, supreme and final authority of your faith and practice.
 
THOUGHT: What is the authority over my life?
PRAYER: Father, may Thou be the final authority of my life, and let me not listen to the lame counsel of this world.

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