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I was coming home from work, and thought of a simple song.
''Lord, teach me to keep your statutes, teach me to keep your commands.
I am a stranger in a foreign land...''
I realized how much I need the Lord to TEACH me his statutes and commands. The way I was used to living and thinking, as it had been revealed, was nothing like Jesus at all. In fact, when I was ready, the Lord let me know that I acted just like Satan. I obeyed Satan, and I looked just like him.
I need the Lord to teach me his commands. Many times I ask him to show me my error, and the evil in me, and to take it out. But I need him to TEACH me to keep his commands, because of that old nature trying to draw me back into the deception I came out of. In two ways, I am a stranger in a foreign land. In this world I am a stranger, because I am no longer of it, I am leaving it. And yet, in the world to come, as I live as a future resident of that world, I am also a stranger.
So I am in-between. I am walking that road. LORD, KEEP ME IN YOUR WAY!! KEEP ME IN YOUR LIGHT!!! KEEP ME ON THE NARROW PATH!!
And I hope, as I hope we all hope, that we will not be strangers forever.
May Jesus bless you.
''Lord, teach me to keep your statutes, teach me to keep your commands.
I am a stranger in a foreign land...''
I realized how much I need the Lord to TEACH me his statutes and commands. The way I was used to living and thinking, as it had been revealed, was nothing like Jesus at all. In fact, when I was ready, the Lord let me know that I acted just like Satan. I obeyed Satan, and I looked just like him.
I need the Lord to teach me his commands. Many times I ask him to show me my error, and the evil in me, and to take it out. But I need him to TEACH me to keep his commands, because of that old nature trying to draw me back into the deception I came out of. In two ways, I am a stranger in a foreign land. In this world I am a stranger, because I am no longer of it, I am leaving it. And yet, in the world to come, as I live as a future resident of that world, I am also a stranger.
So I am in-between. I am walking that road. LORD, KEEP ME IN YOUR WAY!! KEEP ME IN YOUR LIGHT!!! KEEP ME ON THE NARROW PATH!!
And I hope, as I hope we all hope, that we will not be strangers forever.
May Jesus bless you.