As I continue to make my way through the Psalms, the following verses stood out for me a couple of weeks ago:
“Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name. I will give thanks to You, O LORD my God, with all my heart, and will glorify Your name forever. For Your lovingkindness toward me is great, and You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.” Psalm 86:11-13
I saw 3 important verbs, I always look for verbs because that is telling me what I need to do! The first verb is walk. I am to walk in God’s truth. Now that encompasses a lot and when I am faced with too much, I freeze and don’t do anything. So, I was reminded of how Psalm 119 is all about the truth/God’s Word and tells me how to live and walk in that truth. So I am in that Psalm for the next few days, asking God to specifically show me what it means to walk in truth. I am sure I will be sharing insights that God gives me from that Psalm later this week.
The second verb is fear. The Psalmist is asking God to unite his heart to fear God’s name! The word fear in the Bible has many meanings, but I think here it means to revere God’s name. Honor His name and give Him the glory He deserves! I can do that in everything I do during the day if I just remember that God is there and guiding me, giving me the strength to do whatever He is calling me to do. Even while doing the most mundane task, I can honor and glorify God.
That leads to the third verb which is glorifying. The name(s) of God reveal His character…Yahweh, Adonai and so many more. God’s character is worthy of glory and honor, blessing and praise as Revelation tells us in the first 4 chapters. I have been thinking for a long time that I want to look deeper into the names of God to really understand who He is, who Jesus is and how I am to have life in His name.
I realize that originally when I decided to write this blog I was going to go through Ann Graham Lotz’ book Just Give Me Jesus. I still plan to do that, but will also continue to share insights that God gives me from the Psalms. I just didn’t want you to think I had completely given that up. And in between those things I hope to throw in insights about God’s names. How is that for a tall order? Well, with God’s grace I will share what He leads me to! Thanks for listening!
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