Welcome to my 'duh' moment.
This morning while reading Psalm 25 it dawned on me that even though I continually pray for wisdom, discernment, light, meekness, humility, obedience and grace it's not for me that I should be asking it of God. What a prideful idiot I am, and no wonder there's never any sign of growth, because the prayer is always so that 'I' can feel assured, not so that God can be glorified in the result.
Say it with me.....DUH
Lately, effort has been made to read Psalm 25 before any other portion of the bible is read. This Psalm seems to totally gather together the thoughts and prayers which are spiritually desired. Serious hope is that it will eventually be committed to memory, not to be said over and over in a repetitious, heathenish kind of way, but as a manifestation of the groaning of my soul.
So this morning the words that jump out at me, the words that scream their meaning and are repeated by me in amazement are ~ For Thy Name's Sake. It made me stop and look up the reference areas where it is also said - Psalm 31:3 - Psalm 79:9- Ps 143:11 - Jer 14:21 - it may be other places, but these were the ready references at the moment.
Why didn't it ever strike me before, even though I knew it? Although, it does help me to understand why the people in the Old Testament could have had the stuff hitting them right in the forehead, yet never could see. I had it right in my hand, had read it before, and yet today is the day that the resounding chord of understanding hit my consciousness and reverberated into my soul.
It has happened to me before, and my prayer is for it to continue, because it shows that God has granted wisdom and understanding, and it glorifies HIM - For Thy Name's Sake - Amen.
David's Digest: God OR Mammon
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2 comments:
Thanks for sharing, Renee! Have had many of these Duh? moments over the years. Periods of prideful drought/lack of growth; and by Gods grace alone, moments of praiseful true worship and nourishment/growth from the WORD, as you said...FOR GODS GLORY. Repentant prayer for our sins and prayerful requests for wisdom in the Word are a blessed gift. May we be reminded to practice them daily. Amen.
For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people. ~1Samuel 12:22
From John Gill Commentary:
For the sake of himself, his honour and glory; should he forsake his people, and suffer them to come to ruin, his name would be blasphemed among the Heathens; he would be charged either with want of power to help them, or with want of faithfulness to his promise to them, and with inconstancy to himself, or want of kindness and affection for them; all which would reflect upon his honour and glory: it was not owing to any worth or worthiness in them that they became his people, but to his own sovereign good will and pleasure; and therefore, as it was nothing in them that was the cause of their being taken by him for his people, so nothing in them could be the cause of their being rejected by him as such; it was of free grace and favour that they were taken into covenant with him, and by the same would be retained: the Vulgate Latin version is,"the Lord hath sworn to make you a people for himself;" so Jarchi interprets it, he swore, and takes it to have the same sense as in 1Sa 14:24.
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