Corona Devo 3201


Sometimes I can feel myself drifting...can you?  

Drifting...toward sin.  Drifting...toward evil, sometimes in thought, but sometimes in actual action.

Don’t let me drift toward evil today, Lord.

Sometimes we digress.  We forget the whole truth of God and we settle for a sliver.  Forgive us, Father.
Don’t let me take part in acts of wickedness today, Lord.

Psalm 141
(1) O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry!  Listen when I cry to you for help! 
(2) Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
(3) Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips. 
(4) Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness.  Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.  ~Psalm 141:1-4

We do drift sometimes, and for this: We are ashamed, Father.  

Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness.  ~Psalm 141:4

Our son sometimes searches the woods that can surround soccer fields, and he delights to find an errant ball.  Long-kicked balls that have become long-gone from sight, kicked out of play and out of view, and out of mind.  Such treasures can lay hidden in the bush or the brush or the wood, awaiting a soccer-ball-searching seeker.

He found one-such-soccer-ball the other day, and after the game as I packed it into our bag, a referee leaving the field called out to request it from me. 

Immediately, and shamefully, I was made (spiritually and morally) aware of what I was doing. 

(1) O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry!  Listen when I cry to you for help! 
(2) Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
(3) Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips. 
(4) Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness.  Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong.  ~Psalm 141:1-4
   
That was not my ball.
I had known that from the beginning.  But because it had been "lost" or removed from sight, I drifted from the full definition of "right and wrong", and adjusted my acceptance of "mine and theirs".  

I had drifted toward evil and I had taken part in acts of wickedness.  I was one step away from sharing in the delicacies of those who do wrong.  

If we need a reminder today: stealing is wrong.  Stealing is a sin.  Stealing is evil.  And stealing is an act of wickedness.
God tells us blatantly in His Word: “You shall not steal" (Exodus 20:15).

I'm sorry, Lord.  
O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry!  Listen when I cry to you for help! 
(2) Accept my prayer as incense offered to you, and my upraised hands as an evening offering.
(3) Take control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips. 
(4) Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness.  Don’t let me share in the delicacies of those who do wrong. (Psalm 141:1-4).  Amen.

God's Word calls out to us just as the referee called out to me.

The Lord disciplines us with His holy Word.  He wrote it for this purpose--to guide our hearts and our days.  
But I also love the other angle of growth and correction that the Lord uses to shape our spiritual walk: other Believers.

The Bible reminds us today that God puts people in our path to shepherd us in His ways.  

Is someone trying?

Are we open to their advice, wisdom, or correction?  

Don’t let me refuse it today, Father.  Make us open to Your Truth when delivered from others.  
When we require correction, let the godly strike us with it!  And help us to be humble enough to receive it.  Amen.

(5) Let the godly strike me!  It will be a kindness!  If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.  Don’t let me refuse it.  
But I pray constantly against the wicked and their deeds. 
(6) When their leaders are thrown down from a cliff, the wicked will listen to my words and find them true. (7) Like rocks brought up by a plow, the bones of the wicked will lie scattered without burial. 
(8) I look to you for help, O Sovereign Lord.  You are my refuge; don’t let them kill me. 
(9) Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong. 
(10) Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.  ~Psalm 141:5-10

I praise you for the referee on the sideline who spoke up, Lord...and I did not refuse him.

Let the godly strike me!  It will be a kindness!  If they correct me, it is soothing medicine.  Don’t let me refuse it.  ~Psalm 141:5

~~~

Sometimes we can feel ourselves drifting.  

Drifting...toward sin.  Drifting...toward evil.
But because of Your Word and by Your power, let us escape today, Lord!

Don’t let me drift toward evil or take part in acts of wickedness today, Lord.
Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.  ~Psalm 141:10

Blessings,

sarah 

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com 

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