{"id":62,"date":"2019-07-02T16:21:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covenantmoravian.com\/index.php\/watchword-reflections\/tuesday-reflection-july-2-2019\/"},"modified":"2019-07-02T16:21:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T16:21:23","slug":"tuesday-reflection-july-2-2019","status":"publish","type":"watchword","link":"https:\/\/covenantmoravian.com\/index.php\/watchword-reflections\/tuesday-reflection-july-2-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Reflection- July 2, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lord, do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil.\u00a0Psalm 141:4<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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David\u2019s prayer is indeed one that is often on our lips, as we pray The Lord\u2019s Prayer \u201cLead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>It is a thought that many times we struggle with, hoping to stay on the narrow way. But David prays that he would be not be drawn to temptation. He asks God to protect him from every form of temptation, for godly correction that may continue to live the holy and sober life that we have been called to live.<\/p>\n

Hear Psalm 141:3-5 from the Message Translation<\/p>\n

\u201cPost a guard at my mouth,\u00a0God,
\nset a watch at the door of my lips.
\nDon\u2019t let me so much as dream of evil
\nor thoughtlessly fall into bad company.
\nAnd these people who only do wrong\u2014
\ndon\u2019t let them lure me with their sweet talk!
\nMay the Just One set me straight,
\nmay the Kind One correct me,
\nDon\u2019t let sin anoint my head.
\nI\u2019m praying hard against their evil ways!\u201d<\/p>\n

David\u2019s earnest intention is that he would not fall into the trap of sin, and it is a prayer that we all would share as believers. We know, that the devil is as a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour but David asks God to guard his thoughts, his words and his actions so that he may never ever yield to temptation.<\/p>\n

My brothers and sisters, we will be tempted. In fact, Christ himself was. The sin is not being tempted, it is in yielding to the temptation. Christ was tempted but never fell to temptation. So, we guard our hearts against actions that are contrary to God\u2019s standards and his will and purpose for our lives. But it\u2019s not just saying, we need to yield to God, to his Holy Spirit to guard us against the wiles of the devil. David prayed as he asks God to help him, to guard him against temptation. We need Jesus on the inside, working on the outside to bring about that change in our lives.<\/p>\n

Then my brothers and sisters, we strive to live as children of God. Paul puts it this way \u201cYou are dead to sin and alive to God.\u201d (Romans 6:11) And you, may ask, how then do we do that? The Apostle Paul gives an answer to that question in Romans 6: 12-14 (MSG) \u201cThat means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don\u2019t give it the time of day. Don\u2019t even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time\u2014remember, you\u2019ve been raised from the dead!\u2014into God\u2019s way of doing things. Sin can\u2019t tell you how to live.\u201d We then have the power through Christ Jesus to be dead to sin and alive to God. David\u2019 prayer is a request that he be so guarded so as to not slip. Not by his thoughts, his deeds or his lips. Then David in the latter text of Psalm 141 (MSG) writes;<\/p>\n

\u201cBut\u00a0God, dear Lord,
\nI only have eyes for you.<\/p>\n

Since I\u2019ve run for dear life to you,
\ntake good care of me.
\nProtect me from their evil scheming,
\nfrom all their demonic subterfuge.
\nLet the wicked fall flat on their faces,
\nwhile I walk off without a scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fix your eyes on Jesus on not on the things of this world. Keep focused on the\u00a0things that are true, the things that are honest, the things that are just, the things that are pure, the things that are lovely, the things that are of good report; where there is virtue, or where there is praise. (Philippians 4:8)\u00a0James says \u201cSubmit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.\u201d (James 4:7)<\/p>\n

Until next week,\u00a0<\/i><\/b>let our prayer be like David, \u201cLord, do not let my heart be drawn to what is evil.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>May our song be \u201cJesus be a fence all around me, every day. \u201c<\/i>We cannot on our own, live this Christian life so let\u2019s invite and allow Jesus to indwell us to show us the way. I leave with you today\u2019s doctrinal text\u00a0\u201cDo not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.<\/i>\u201d (Romans 12:21) Then we can say with every authority \u201cGet thee behind me Satan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dominic J. Blair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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