Proclamation:
“Teach me Your way, Lord, that I may rely
on Your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your
name. I will praise You, Lord my God,
with all my heart, I will glorify Your name forever.” Psalm 86:11-12 (NIV)
Explanation:
This psalm was written by King David under
the influence of The Holy Spirit of God.
This psalm is another one of the many prayers which David spoke to The Lord
when he was in distress. (Psalm 86:1 and 6-7)
He acknowledged who The Lord God was and how great His deeds were.
(Psalm 86:8-10) Then he asked God to
teach him and show him the way. He had
been blessed with knowledge before, but he wanted more instruction. (Psalm
25:4) One cannot truly love The Lord
with a heart that is divided between the love of God and the love of the
world. A unified and undivided heart is
a gift from the Lord so that His people would love and fear Him. (Jeremiah
32:39) He wanted to praise God with his
whole heart and with all that was within him. (Psalm 103:1)
Application:
The only way for us to walk God’s way is
for Him to show us the way. (Psalm 119:105)
He must teach us, lead us, and guide us in order for us to walk His way. Only with the single-mindedness of a
single-hearted loyalty to The Lord God can we truly love Him with all of our
heart, mind and soul. (Deuteronomy 11:13 and Joshua 22:5) Jesus, The Christ, said, “If you love me,
keep my commandments.” (John 14:15) We
cannot love Him if we do not follow His Holy Word. We cannot love Him if we confess a sin and
then continue to repeat that sin. That
is proof that we love the sin more than we love Him. (John 3:19) Our lifestyle is a reflection of our
beliefs. Believers are not perfect, but
we follow God’s way. If you continually
follow the sinful path, you are not walking God’s way. You must turn from your wicked sinful ways
and seek Him if you want The Lord God to hear and answer your prayers. (2
Chronicles 7:14)
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