Dustin and I get together every Thursday morning at 6 AM and meet at Starbucks for coffee and read the Bible together. It’s great and we both totally look forward to these mornings, even though they are early! Because of the race this past week (pictures soon to come!), we weren’t able to make it to church, so we read together and this is what I wrote on. In fact, we both chose the same verse out of the entire reading to write on, which we both thought was pretty cool.
Psalm 86:11 – “Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.”
David is crying out to the Lord in this psalm, for the Lord to continue to guide him and lead him through all things. In order to truly walk with God, David asks the Lord to teach him how to do this. And because of the things and people around David, he knows it will not be an easy route, so he asks the Lord to give him an undivided heart – a heart that is only for the Lord and no one or nothing else.
This is an awesome verse and two things really stuck out to me: in order to truly walk with the Lord, He needs to teach me how and my heart needs only one thing to fully fill it – the Lord! If I allow myself to think that I can walk with the Lord by not asking him on a regular basis to be a part of my walk and to lead and teach me “how to walk,” it’s not going to work out very well. Just as toddlers, when we are first learning how to walk, we need our parents guidance, encouragement, and support. They reach out their hands to ours as we are trying to take the next step, and if we don’t grab onto it, we will crash and burn. And without them constantly showing us how it is done, and encouraging us, we will never learn to walk. The Lord does the same thing for us. And secondly, my heart cannot have compartments: one for the things I can do on my own, one for things I can do with others, and still another for things that I’ll “let” God help me with. No, just like David, I pray for an undivided heart – a heart that is 100% led by God. I want to fear God in all I do, so this is the only way to accomplish it.
Lord, I pray for an open heart and mind to allow you to teach me your ways so that I can fear you in all I do. I have a god-shaped hole in my heart and I pray for the strength and discipline to fill it with you alone – your godly characteristics and traits.
Psalm 86:11 – “Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.”
David is crying out to the Lord in this psalm, for the Lord to continue to guide him and lead him through all things. In order to truly walk with God, David asks the Lord to teach him how to do this. And because of the things and people around David, he knows it will not be an easy route, so he asks the Lord to give him an undivided heart – a heart that is only for the Lord and no one or nothing else.
This is an awesome verse and two things really stuck out to me: in order to truly walk with the Lord, He needs to teach me how and my heart needs only one thing to fully fill it – the Lord! If I allow myself to think that I can walk with the Lord by not asking him on a regular basis to be a part of my walk and to lead and teach me “how to walk,” it’s not going to work out very well. Just as toddlers, when we are first learning how to walk, we need our parents guidance, encouragement, and support. They reach out their hands to ours as we are trying to take the next step, and if we don’t grab onto it, we will crash and burn. And without them constantly showing us how it is done, and encouraging us, we will never learn to walk. The Lord does the same thing for us. And secondly, my heart cannot have compartments: one for the things I can do on my own, one for things I can do with others, and still another for things that I’ll “let” God help me with. No, just like David, I pray for an undivided heart – a heart that is 100% led by God. I want to fear God in all I do, so this is the only way to accomplish it.
Lord, I pray for an open heart and mind to allow you to teach me your ways so that I can fear you in all I do. I have a god-shaped hole in my heart and I pray for the strength and discipline to fill it with you alone – your godly characteristics and traits.
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