FBC Daily Devotional – October 26, 2021

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Well, good morning Tuesday morning to you, and I hope you're off to a good start this week had a good day yesterday and just can look back this morning on how the day was spent and what was accomplished and You can rejoice and thank the

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Lord for what he enabled you to do Maybe you look back and you realize you know, I didn't get done as much as I wanted to do or expected to do

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That's okay. Remember yesterday's Yesterday's devotional We established the plan our hearts established the plans even of what we want to get accomplished in a day but it's the

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Lord who directs the steps and maybe you had some interrupt interruptions in your day that Prevented you from accomplishing some of the things you wanted to do.

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It's okay Those things those things are part of the Lord's orchestration as well.

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Well today we're looking at Psalm 119 and a couple of the stanzas in that song and Several questions come to mind as I read the psalmist testimony

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I asked myself these questions. So for example verse 97 the psalmist says, oh

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How I love your law it is my meditation all the day That's his testimony

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But is it mine? Do do I? love

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God's Word Do I love God's Word? Is it my meditation all the day?

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Is it do I go back? Do I mull over do I think about? Biblical truth throughout the course of the day.

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I Don't think what he means by this is is that you know, he doesn't do his work

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He doesn't focus on the things he's supposed to focus on but I think the idea is, you know, it comes up against an issue or a problem or a challenge and his mind meditates and Ruminates over, you know, what what does

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God have to say about this? What what would delight God in this? What what does

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God like in relationship to this and the question be asked of relationships and so on and so forth

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Is it my meditation? Do I go back to it the word over and over through the day do

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I? really Love God's Word one of the ways you can answer that question is

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By you know, what asking what's your relationship to it? What through the course of the week?

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you know, is it a is it a book that just sits on the shelf and You know, maybe doesn't even come to church with you a lot of people now have you know, the

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Bible on their phone or a tablet or whatever and that's fine That's fine.

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I mean, I I prefer the paper book, you know paper and you know, leather or whatever in my hands but that's a personal preference thing, but even if that's the case you take you take your

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Bible with you to church on Sunday, but Do you have anything to do with it the rest of the week?

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Do you want to have something to do with it the rest of the week? So that's that's a good good question to ask ourselves to give us an answer to the bigger question

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Do I love God's Word and then verse 101? The psalmist's testimony is

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I Have restrained my feet from every evil way that I may keep your word.

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So here's the question I have to ask myself do I hold back my feet from every evil way in Order to keep

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God's Word. Do I hold my feet back or do I rush headlong? Into in a direction that I I know isn't pleasing to God Challenging thought challenging question and psalm 100 verse 103

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He writes. Oh, how sweet are your words to my taste sweeter than honey to my mouth?

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Is that how I is that how I? View God's Word. Do I appreciate it as something sweeter than honey?

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great sweet delightful desirable taste in my mouth or Or perhaps

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I find it something bitter a bitter swill a bitter pill to swallow

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Because it just steps on my toes all the time it's always confronting me with things if you know, how how

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How's my appetite? For God's Word. Is it something that is the joy of my heart?

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It's a question prompted by verse 103 or 111. He says your testimonies

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I have taken as a heritage forever for they are the rejoicing of my heart Do I find great joy in God's Word in?

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Learning new truths in being confronted with with what

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God likes Even though it's contrary to what I'm doing or to what

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I like Do do I rejoice in being so confronted because then my life can be conformed to what

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God likes you see Do I rejoice in God's Word? Is it the joy of my heart and then verse 112?

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He says I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes forever to the very end the psalmist testimony is

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My inclination is toward obedience Is that is that my inclination or Is my inclination away from obedience and I have to be

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I have to be corralled lassoed and pulled toward a path of obedience

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Needless to say if I'm Really living in fellowship with the Lord and walking with him.

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I I want to be obedient. My inclination would be to obey Even though I I don't all the time

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That is nevertheless my inclination. That should be my testimony that the psalmist prompts me to ask myself

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Is it am I inclined toward obedience or is the inclination somewhere else?

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So these are some pretty probing questions. You read the testimony of the psalmist and We have to we should

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Pause and ask ourselves. Is that my testimony and if it isn't Why not?

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What's what's wrong with my heart? Let's uh, let's consider that let's ponder that and if some of these things some of these questions that we've considered today

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If you've had to admit yours to yourself, yeah boy, I Guess I don't really love

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God's law. I'm not it's not the joy of my heart It's it's not sweet to my taste and so on then

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Maybe the good thing to do would be to spend some time with the Lord and say Lord why what's? Why is my heart so cold?

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Why is my appetite so dulled? Be worth a worthwhile exercise

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Father I pray as we think about our own testimony and our own heart in relationship to your word

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I pray that you would speak to us and I pray that our testimony could be that of the psalmist

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Those who love you really want to be want that to be the case Bless these thoughts to our hearts today.

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We pray in Jesus name. Amen All right. Well, you have a good rest of your