You have charged us to keep your commandments carefully. Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees! Then I will not be ashamed when I compare my life with your commands. As I learn your righteous regulations, I will thank you by living as I should! I will obey your decrees, please do not give up on me! Psalm 119:4-8
As the sun is the center of the solar system; so God is the center of my life. What I do daily revolves around the center. All the fragments of my life are equally distant from the center.
The center is what actually keeps me focused so that I may perform as necessary and determine what to prioritize for the moment at hand. We can plan our day, and as soon as it begins something happens to subvert it. In an instant things change and priorities are reorganized. However the core and center of who I am in life remains the same.
Sometimes, I react to subversive changes and truthfully I am shamed. No excuses, I’m human after all and some days are worse than others. But, because the center of my life does not give up on me, I move on, get focused and act accordingly.
Because of His love, He’s available to help me clean up the messes I make. I recently read, ” God submits to the decisions I make…and love doesn’t protect me from the consequence of my choices, but it also does not abandon me to them. Nor does God’s presence in the midst of our stupidity justify any of it. God is opposed to anything that is not of Love’s kind, but God is always ‘for’ us in the middle of the mess.”
So when my actions do not “consistently” reflect God’s decrees; He’s still there patiently waiting for me to “get back to the program He has developed for me.”
Really? I don’t deserve any of God, but I’m so thankful for his patience with my inconsistencies. I’m so glad and blessed that he doesn’t give up on me! I’d be totally doomed! Blessed be the Name of the Lord!
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