Do you want to be productive? Do you seek to be someone others can count on? Whose advice do you listen to? Where does your guidance come from? What are the principles your life is based on? Are your principles based on God’s law? Do you have them engraved on your heart?
Most of us want to be productive members of society. We want to be people others can count on. Whether we admit it or not, we like others knowing they can depend on us. But if we are trying to be an upstanding person on our own, we get worn out and often fail.
We fail when we act based on the wrong advice. There are any number of people who like to give us advice based on their personal desires. When we follow their advice rather than basing our decisions on God’s law, commands, and principles, we stumble and may find ourselves digging a hole.
On the other hand, when we study God’s Word, have his law, commands, and principles written on our hearts and we filter all advice through them, we can make wise decisions. Our desires will match God’s desires. Our strength is not our own but God’s. The fruit of our labors are not ours but God’s who is working through us. We become the upstanding person of God that he created us to be.
I pray we all study God’s Word. I pray we have his law, commands, and principles written on our hearts. I pray each one of us will become the person God has created us to be. Study God’s Word. Know God’s law. Obey God’s commands. Follow God’s principles. Be the person God created you to be.
Psalm 1:1-3
Happy are those
who do not follow the advice of the wicked,
or take the path that sinners tread,
or sit in the seat of scoffers;
but their delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law they meditate day and night.
They are like trees
planted by streams of water,
which yield their fruit in its season,
and their leaves do not wither.
In all that they do, they prosper.
Marty Pressey 