Teach me your decrees. Give me
understanding. Direct me to delight in your commands that my heart might be
turned from selfish gain and my eyes from worthless things. Fulfill your
promise and take away the disgrace I dread. It would seem the psalmist has
firsthand knowledge of the disgrace of selfish gain and worthless things as do we all. “All we like sheep have gone astray, each of us to our own
way” is how the prophet Isaiah describes
the time before we came to our senses to see how far we had strayed and in all
our longing how secure we might be, if only… That “if only” is the pivotal point
of these verses but the whole point is that the psalmist is wholly dependent on
God to teach, give, direct, turn, fulfill and take away. The psalmist is wholly
dependent on the Lord to turn the course of worthless wanderings to life
preserving paths of righteousness. So what part do we play in all of this? The
same part the psalmist plays which is to pray the longing of the heart to know
and be known by God or to quote a Kris Kristofferson country
classic, “Lord, help me, Jesus…”
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