“He restores my soul: He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake."
Why do we need restoration? We need it because we have wandered from the path that God has laid out for us. It is at these times that we need the replenishment that only the Lord Jesus Christ can give us. He comes to our rescue before we make any more of a mess than we have already made. I imagine that you know what I mean. (Okay, I will go ahead and confess that I know what I mean.) What we really fail to understand is that God really, really wants to restore us. You must seek it in prayer and deep meditation. Jesus literally stands at your heart’s door, not to just to save you, but to restore you to a deeper relationship with Him. This brings us to the “paths of righteousness” to which He leads us. When we are restored, we will not be so puffed up with our own religiosity that we will be stuffy and unapproachable. It is the path that will lead us away from the destructiveness that sin can bring into our lives. It is the path that leads us to saying “no” to things that we should say “no” to, and to saying “yes” to the things to which we should say “yes.” I don’t think you need a diagram to what I mean here. You already know right from wrong. But this is why we need to stay in the word of God in order to instill in us what it means to live a righteous life. It will be the path to humility and to the place of prayer. It will be the path to, not just to attend church, but to be the church in our daily lives. What does David mean by “for His name’s sake”? There is probably no end to what this means, but I will share you my limited understanding of what it means. I think that it means that He will restore us as we draw closer to Him in our daily lives. It means that we will cease living only for our “own name’s sake,” and for living for “His name’s sake.” I think that it is to have the attitude of John the Baptist when he said that “He (Jesus) must increase but I must decrease.” It should mean that instead of seeking self glory, we will seek to bring glory to Jesus. This doesn’t mean that we should not take great satisfaction in what we do in His name. We just need to realize that He is to receive the glory for what we do in His name. Seek His restoration of your life today. Bro. Joe
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Linda Brooks
10/10/2016 02:05:34 pm
To GOD BE THE GLORY for EVERYTHING HE gives me the strength to do !
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