The Best Way To End Your Day

[Christ4Ever]

Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. I remember Your name in the night, O LORD, And I keep Your law. This has become mine, Because I kept Your precepts. Psalm 119:54-56 NKJV

The psalmist has kept the teachings of the Lord on his mind as a song and as his last thought each day so that he can remain obedient to God’s law. By keeping the teachings of the Lord on his mind, he makes it that much easier to avoid temptation and willful sins. This practice became a life-giving habit that he freely passed along to others.

What fills your mind each day? What are you listening to, watching, reading, or pondering? However, you answer that question, it’s likely your answer will help determine whether it’s easier to obey or disobey the teachings of scripture. Immersing yourself in examples of self-fulfillment, self-indulgence, and even hostility toward others will make it much harder to exhibit the humble self-sacrifice that Jesus modeled.

Filling your mind with songs about God’s goodness, meditating on scripture before bedtime, or reading a book about scripture can be a useful way to fill your mind with God’s direction. You can spend your days with scripture at the front of your thoughts, and your mind can drift off to sleep in harmony with God’s teachings.

Prayer: Jesus, help me to keep Your teachings at the front of my mind each day.

 

[BloomOne]

Contemplation Psalms 42:1

Beloved ones, let us contemplate Psalms 42, was titled Yearning for God in the midst of distresses. It was addressed to the chief musician. A contemplation of the sons of Korah.

This is what we have heard:

“As the deer pants for the water BROOKS,
So pants my soul for You, O God.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭42:1‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Brook is defined as a stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).

For we heard water BROOKS, so there is not one but many small spiritual streams of water,that is, a tributary of a river or rivers
from God.

Since the deer pants for the water brooks is compared to our soul pants for God, so our souls pant for the water brooks.

But why water brooks is compared to God ?

This, we have heard:

“For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, A LAND OF BROOKS OF WATER, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills;”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭8:7‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

So our souls pant for God, for the Lord our God is bringing us into a good land, A LAND OF BROOKS OF WATER, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills.

But how we pant for God ?

This is what we have heard:

“They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them.
I will cause them to walk by THE RIVERS OF WATERS,
In a straight way in which they shall not stumble;
For I am a Father to Israel,
And Ephraim is My firstborn.”

‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭31:9‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

So we should pant for God, for our souls yearn for God in the midst of distresses, that we should come with weeping and with supplications He leads us.
For He will cause us to walk by THE BROOKS OF WATERS,
In a straight way in which we shall not stumble;

For He is a Father to us, for we are spiritual Israelites,
And the Fruitful, Christ is His firstborn, and we who are in Him will be fruitful.

For we heard that He will cause us to walk by THE BROOKS OF WATERS. How ?

This is what we have heard:

“The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, And the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭18:4‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Is Jesus not a Son of Man ? He is.

So the words of the Son of Man’s mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of His wisdom as a flowing brook.

We understand that He will cause us to walk by THE BROOKS OF WATERS, is Jesus who will cause us to walk by His many wisdom.

So we who pant for the water brooks, are we who yearn for God in the midst of distresses for His many wisdom.

We heard by the brooks of water is by His wisdom. So what wisdom have we heard from Jesus ?

He shall be like a tree
Planted BY The RIVERS OF WATER,
That brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭1:3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Beloved ones, let us be planted by the brooks of water or planted by His wisdom, that our delights are in the law of the Lord,
And in His law we meditate day and night,for we shall be like a tree that brings forth its fruit in its season,
Whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever we do shall prosper.
Selah