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GOD’S WORD, MY CHOICE
FRIDAY, MARCH 29
Psalm 119:173-174

Joshua 24:14-28

 

“…choose you this day

whom ye will serve…”

 

GOD’S WORD, MY CHOICE
 
Daily, we have to make choices. What time to wake up, what kind of food for breakfast, what clothes to wear for school or work, what route to take, and many other things. Have you chosen the best part of the day for God and His Word? Do you choose to spend time with God alone and meditate upon His wise counsel? The psalmist chooses God’s Word because he needs God’s hand to help him. His first choice is the Word of God for he knows his need of the God of the Word.
 
For God’s help: God is a spirit. Scripture helps us to understand God’s ability by telling us about His hand. He can perform, hold, and dispense. He can do many things and this is described as God having a hand. When the prophet Isaiah said, “Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save…” (Isa 59:1), he expressed God’s all-powerful ability to save His people. No one can prevent His hands from doing His will and pleasure. When He does that, it is indeed a soothing touch upon the believer’s head, it is a healing touch upon a wounded soldier of the Most High, it is a loving arm that assures a suffering saint of His abiding presence. It is a complete help for it never lacks and the result gives a full resolution. The help is encompassing for it helps in many various ways. God helps the weak and weary to strengthen them. He helps those who are struggling to provide for their needs and sustenance.
 
For God’s salvation: The LORD delivers His people and shows how faithful He is. God saves them who are His from all the attacks of the enemy and the wiles of the devil. He saves them to the uttermost, and He will not fail them while they are on their pilgrim journey. The psalmist has this longing for God’s deliverance, not from the hand of men, but from the mighty hand of his redeemer. He waits upon His salvation for there is not one like His. He cannot find genuine deliverance from this world. It is God alone who can do it for him and he trusts His care.
 
O, how we long for the LORD’s hand to help us! He is able to extend His loving arms and provide His help. Why seek man to help when God can do it perfectly? When you choose His Word, the promises in it are all yours.
 
THOUGHT: Is the Word of God my choice?

PRAYER: Father, I thank Thee for Thy loving, helping hand.

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