Daily Devotional January 18 - Thinking on God - Psalm 19:14

"ALet the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.@  Psalm 19:14

I am not writing this today so that you can get some little tidbit of dried up or stale bread. I am here to deliver the bread of life. 

• I am not going to add to or endorse our already too long of a list of ways that we can have it both ways. 
• I am not going to tickle yours ears with words that make you feel good about sin or indiscretions that we keep on courting.
• I am here to deliver to you the unfailing Word of God.
• I am going to take the guesswork out of your situation.
• I am going to help you to nail your problems down with pin-point accuracy.
• If you have an obstacle or a barrier, get ready to leap right over it.
• If you need a breakthrough, today is your day. David found out through experience and through divine inspiration that it is easy to disguise ourselves, (to disguise the outer man or to disguise the inner man.)  David knew a man who had toyed with God. 

If you don't think you have a barrier or an obstacle or you don't think you need a breakthrough; If you have life so wrapped up that you don't need some of God's wonder working power, you won't get a thing out of this message or the next one or the one after that.

God didn't give us His Word so that year after year we would be without a clue. Nor did God send His only begotten Son to die for us so that we could act like we never met Him.  It's time that we grow up and quit tolerating the things of God and learn to love them and guard them and reveal them. Oh that we had the same passion for the things of God that we have for other things.

God-thinking isn't just about thinking high and lofty thoughts of God. It's also about growing up and taking responsibility for who we are in Christ.  It's about taking God's direction and moving forward.  It's about abiding in Christ.  God-thinking sparks us to get on with life and make the next few years worth it all.  It's about being so hungry for the things of God that we don't want to ruin our appetite with anything else.  It's about the words we speak and what we allow our eyes to see and what we think about and what we meditate on.


This man he knew would praise God with his mouth and plan mischief and havoc in his heart at the same time.
This man that David knew had trained his tongue to say the right things. He knew the right buzz words of his era.
He worshiped God and railed on others for their sin.
Outwardly he revered God, but inwardly he sinned against God, not one time, but many.
Over and over again this man that David knew would bow the knee and pray, while plotting the demise of another.
When the sins of this man were revealed, David was appalled.
He wanted to punish this man.
He was so moved by the revelation of the sins of this man, that he quickly decided that the only punishment worthy of such a reprobate, could be death.


He pronounced sentence and was ready to follow through and exact the fair and just punishment against someone who could be so shifty, when it was brought to his attention, (by the prophet Nathan) that he himself was the man.


Oh what distress to have our true self revealed and posted for all to see. Not the painting of the one we paint, but the real person, the whole person, revealed and stripped of all the makeup that cover up the inner man.


There is no peace with God and our ability to grow spiritually is stifled when our outer man is not in agreement with our inner man.  We are at peace with God and we are able to move forward in God's plan for our life when our outer man accurately reflects our inner man.  I think I will think on the things of God today.