Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they shall not reach him. You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you. Do not be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check... Many are the sorrows of the wicked; but he who trusts in the LORD, lovingkindness shall surround him. Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous ones, and shout for joy, all you who are upright in heart.
There are three very popular paths that many people take that always lead to folly, not paths that take different courses, but paths that mingle together, coming in on each other, like one river into another, widening into a road called "foolishness". The first is self-centeredness, which mingles into the second, called stubbornness, which in turn joins with the third, called senselessness. And it's amazing how senseless smart people can get! These, of course, are filled with the traffic of things like pride, arrogance, cockiness, and self-importance, all desperately wanting to impress the world around them. They careen down the road of life, like a mess on wheels. The wreckage around us only goes to prove the folly of this way. Hang around long enough and you'll come to the same conclusion the Psalmist came to when he said, "Many are the sorrows of the wicked". The LORD steps into this mess, giving us an off ramp. And we need to take it! As the Psalmist says, "don't be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check..." There is a better way. It's the way of sensibility and salvation. It's a deliberate and complete surrender of our life to the One who can keep us from the disasters of our own way. This is His invitation to us, with the promise that "I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you." To anyone who has taken this way, there is the testimony of safety. This heart exclaims with joy, "Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they shall not reach him. You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
There are three very popular paths that many people take that always lead to folly, not paths that take different courses, but paths that mingle together, coming in on each other, like one river into another, widening into a road called "foolishness". The first is self-centeredness, which mingles into the second, called stubbornness, which in turn joins with the third, called senselessness. And it's amazing how senseless smart people can get! These, of course, are filled with the traffic of things like pride, arrogance, cockiness, and self-importance, all desperately wanting to impress the world around them. They careen down the road of life, like a mess on wheels. The wreckage around us only goes to prove the folly of this way. Hang around long enough and you'll come to the same conclusion the Psalmist came to when he said, "Many are the sorrows of the wicked". The LORD steps into this mess, giving us an off ramp. And we need to take it! As the Psalmist says, "don't be as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding, whose trappings include bit and bridle to hold them in check..." There is a better way. It's the way of sensibility and salvation. It's a deliberate and complete surrender of our life to the One who can keep us from the disasters of our own way. This is His invitation to us, with the promise that "I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you." To anyone who has taken this way, there is the testimony of safety. This heart exclaims with joy, "Therefore, let everyone who is godly pray to You in a time when You may be found; surely in a flood of great waters they shall not reach him. You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
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