By: admin On: February 06, 2012 In: Diligence, Precepts Comments: 0
Diligence, Precepts

You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently. Psalm 119:4
TAKING IT IN

No matter what our choices are today, ultimately those choices are creating our future.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20 continues to speak wisdom into our lives:
…I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days…
“PRECEPT” comes from a Hebrew word which has to do with visiting or coming to some situation in a position of authority and giving directions or instructions about what should be done. A precept can be thought of as an “overseer” whose primary responsibility is to take care of or take charge of us in our situation. The directions and orders a precept gives are meant to be instructive; that is, they teach us directions to follow.
Without directions we are bound to get lost. We must listen to and follow these specific directions diligently. We cannot afford to be haphazard because one wrong turn will get us completely lost. Our whole attitude should be to recognize that if God has given us particular instructions and directions as to how and where we should walk, then the wisest thing we can do is follow them carefully.
“TO KEEP” also means to guard, to protect and to hedge about in safety. When we are told to keep God’s precepts, it means that we should carefully protect His Word from being stolen from our hearts. The enemy tries to remove God’s Word from our lives, so that we are left without its necessary instruction. By meditating on God’s Word, we can do our part to keep His Word in our lives.
Diligence, Precepts
MAKING IT MEANINGFUL

When God is asking us to diligently keep His precepts, He is not asking us for “an obey the rules or else” response. His desire is that we would understand His deep love for us – Acknowledge that His precepts are true, right and just and serve for our best interest.

To our detriment, we don’t often equate love with obedience. Imagine how our perspective might change if our response to God’s precepts came out of the understanding that we are deeply, unconditionally, eternally loved and totally accepted by God in Christ.
As we begin to obey and experience the wisdom of God’s instructions we experience His love and complete care for us.

  • Is there any area of your life where you are struggling to obey?
  • Is it possible that you are doubting God’s perfect love?
WORKING IT INTO MY HEART

God is saying that as we believe in His instruction for our lives, that trust will always inspire loving obedience.

In this way we prove and experience for ourselves that God’s way is “good, perfect and acceptable” and we are well on the way to being transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2).
Move beyond obedience to responding in love to the great love God has for you!

  • Are you coming to a deeper understanding of God’ love for you?
  • Is this working out practically in your life by growing obedience to His precepts?
  • Why or why not?

Read 1 John 2:3-6 and think about how the love of God is being perfected in your heart!

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