Psalms 34:11-14
11 Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you to revere and worshipfully fear the Lord.12 What man is he who desires life and longs for many days, that he may see good?13 Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.14 Depart from evil and do good; seek, inquire for, and crave peace and pursue (go after) it!
The Psalmist in these verse lays down simple instructions on how to revere God. It is often the simple instructions we miss most often in life. We seek God for wisdom and direction. We ask Him to make his path to be clear. All the while we are not following the simple instructions. Thinking our specific needs and desires couldn't be met in such simple instructions. Comparing the complexity of our world to the lack of complexity in the instructions. Asking ourselves how can something so simple lead to the answers we need and want.
My wife and I have been in a season where we keep asking God for direction and wisdom. There are some specific needs we have been addressing this is not a general question. So far all we have gotten is what appears to be a general answer. Do what you know you need to be doing. Be faithful in what you do, be good stewards, invest in your walk, read the bible, and pray. We keeping saying but Lord we need specific answers to our specific questions. The more we seek the louder the general answer is.
As humans we can often over complicate God and upright living. Look at all the rules and laws that the Israelites had made by the time Jesus came to them. It was no longer the Ten commandments, It was no longer just what was outlined Exodus, Deuteronomy, Numbers and Leviticus. They had added more way more. You had to spend a childhood studying to know it all. Even if you studied it all could they all be lived out? Then came Jesus and he simplified it for us. In a form even more simplified than the ten commandments. His instructions for life are included in the following verses
Matthew 22:37-40
37 And He replied to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (intellect). 38 This is the great (most important, principal) and first commandment.39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself. 40 These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.
If we look back to what is said in Psalms 34:4-9 we can see a promise. In my words and for the question Mandy and I are asking here is that promise. If you will do the simple things in life I am calling you to do and be, then your specific questions and needs will be answered and taken care of.
That is the promise which I am boldly standing on today and with God's strengthening; the leading of the Holy Spirit and the love, support and reminders of family and friends I will be standing on tomorrow and the day after that until I am in the presence of Jesus.
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