Readings: Psalm 119:97-104 and Matthew 7: 24-29
- As you begin your meditations on God’s word, sit with the words of the psalmist in Ps.119:97-104. Are any of the psalmist’s sentiments true of you? Why or why not? Talk to God about how you experience his word in your actual life.
- Turning to Matthew’s gospel and the final words of Jesus in his teaching on the mount, read the passage a few times through. In honesty, consider what he says about the wisdom of obedience to his word. To what degree do you hear his word and do it? Where in your heart and life do you sense a chasm between hearing and doing?
- As you consider the picture Jesus paints of a life built with God and on his word versus one that is not, consider how you are building your life and what it is built on. To what degree have you experienced ruinous effects of a life without God or choices made apart from God in disobedience to his word? If God was sitting with you at this moment, what would you ask him, what would you say to him? What would you want him to do for you? Talk to God in prayer.
- As you continue to consider your life, past and present, how do you experience the sturdy dependability of God and his word as a foundation that holds firm in times of storm? Respond in gratitude. Ask for the grace-filled capacity to wisely build your life in God by the integration of hearing and doing his word.
– Elizabeth Khorey