Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Seek Understanding

Psalm 119:169
 169 May my cry come before you, O LORD;
   give me understanding according to your word.

Did you know that one of the greatest things we could ask the Lord for is wisdom and understanding? Not riches, nor friends or anything else.  The psalmist is crying out to the Lord for understanding but according to His word. Not the world's understanding or even his own but according to the Word of God. As a society we have come to a place where we will seek and search anything we can for answers accept from the source of the created world. Why? Is it because we cannot physically see him? We consult sources all the time where the author is not present or one we do not know personally. The difference with God is that we can come to know him through his son, Jesus Christ. We can come to understand the things we do not know if we only ask. "Understanding according to your word" is another way of saying, through the eyes or perspective of God. God's ways are not ours so it takes putting on a different pair of glasses to see life, including ours, from God's perspective. If we only had a 1/1000 of the understanding of God's ways and how our lives could be if we absorb and apply what he desires, our results would be sweeter.

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