Proclamation:
“May the words of
my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in
Your sight, O LORD, my Rock and
my Redeemer." Psalms 19:14 (NIV)
Explanation:
King David, a man after the heart of
God, prayed this prayer out of his sincere desire to please God. He had
asked God for forgiveness of his sins, and he asked God to keep him from
committing sin unintentionally and willfully. (Psalms 19:12-13) Here he
is praying for Him to guide his words and his thoughts, so that they might also
be pleasing to The Lord. He knows that his help, his strength, and his
salvation all come from The Lord.
Application:
We would do well
to ask God to forgive our sinful thoughts, words, and deeds, and to ask for His
help to avoid unintentional and intentional sins. We all need His help
because we sin by omission as well as by commission. David said that The
Word of God warns us, and we are rewarded for obeying it. (Psalms 19:9-11)
We will be judged on our thoughts, (1 Samuel 16:7) our spoken
words, (Matthew 12:36) and our actions. (Jeremiah
17:10 and 32:19, and Revelation 20:12) We will also be judged on the
things which we should have done but omitted. (Matthew 25:45) David was a
man after the heart of God because he had a sincere desire to please
God. Although he had sinned, he prayed frequently, and he asked God
to forgive him, and he asked God to guide his thoughts, words, and deeds.
It would be good for us to do likewise. We should pray that not
only our actions would be pleasing to The Lord, but that the words of our
mouths and the meditation of our hearts would be pleasing to Him.
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