Friday, June 21, 2024

Listen to the Word

May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

As we pray Psalm 19:14, we are expressing our hope that what we do will be pleasing in God’s sight. This prayer provokes an important question: who are you living to please? Often the words of our mouths are used to try to be pleasing in the sight of other people, seeking to demonstrate to them how smart, or how funny, or how spiritual, or how powerful we are. Often the meditation of our hearts centers on how we can improve our public approval ratings. Through this prayer, we invite God to set us free from our need to impress other people. We tell him that his opinion is the only one that matters. 

Live the Word

Make plans to do a good deed this weekend that no one else will ever know about. Perhaps you could bathe someone in prayer without telling them, or deliver an anonymous gift, or do some secret act of service. Don’t seek credit for your good deed from anyone else; keep it between you and God.