Title: The Power of Looking At Yourself Instead of Your Neighbor
Text:
Psalm 119:158 (ESV)
158 I look at the faithless with disgust, because they do not keep your commands.
Observation:
We all have a tendency to look at others with disgust like the Psalmist admits in his cry to the Lord. There are somethings that we can say to the Lord that we should not repeat to anyone else.
I am encouraged by the main thrust of the heart cry of the Psalmist, and his desire for the Lord to do something in his heart that only God could do. God does His best work in us when we surrender to Him our whole heart.
Notice that the Psalmist cried our three times for the thing that he desired the most, and the thing he needed the most.
Psalm 119:154 (ESV)
154 Plead my cause and redeem me; give me life according to your promise!
Psalm 119:156 (ESV)
156 Great is your mercy, O LORD; give me life according to your rules.
Psalm 119:159 (ESV)
159 Consider how I love your precepts! Give me life according to your steadfast love.
The most significant thing we can do to change our condition is to do what the Apostle Paul encourages the believers at Corinth to do.
2 Corinthians 13:5 (ESV)
5 Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—Unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Your name; and, O how I delight to read Your Word, and receive the blessings that flow from obeying the Word.
Father, stir our hearts, and create in us a burning desire for self-examination of our heart, and to open our hearts to receive Jesus if He is not now occupying our whole heart.
Father, may our cry to You be like the Psalmist, "Give me life" because Father, You know that love and mercy suits our case. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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