Psalm 119:17-56
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“Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish
gain.
Turn my eyes away from worthless things.”
These verses pounded on my heart quite a bit. Here is why in a nutshell - a silly
story of my stupidity, but also what I’m learning from my attitude:
While doing laundry yesterday I was holding the basket full of
dirty clothes against my hip holding onto it with one hand ready to take it
downstairs and my phone in the other hand. My youngest daughter who just turned two was coming
downstairs with me and needed to hold my hand down the stairs. So I laid my phone on top of the dirty
clothes in the basket in order to hold her hand. Of course by the time I got down the stairs my completely
distracted and loopy brain forgot all about the phone and in the washer it went
with the dirty clothes. To say
that I was completely bummed and stressed out over this event would be an
understatement!
But then I got really humbled thinking about just how spoiled and
selfish I am. I thought about the
team of people I know who are in Myanmar right now and the orphans they are
with. Then this verse … “Turn my eyes
away from worthless things.” That
is my prayer. Lord, help me to
keep my eyes on what really matters and not be consumed by selfish desires.
Sometimes I like to read scriptures in different translations,
which I did today since it was a shorter reading. Here is a section from The
Message translation of Psalm 119 that also really struck me:
“Barricade the road that goes Nowhere; grace me with your clear
revelation. I choose the true road
to Somewhere. I post your road
signs at every curve and corner. I
grasp and cling to whatever you tell me.”
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