Don’t judge me!!

Reading: Ezekiel 47-48, Psalm 26 and 2 Timothy 3

Scripture: Psalm 26:8-9, O Lord, I love the habitation of your house and the place where your glory dwells. Do not sweep my soul away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men,

Thoughts: David starts this Psalm by asking God to judge him. I have not met anyone who wants to be judged, let alone by someone with such authority as God. Then we get to verses 8 and 9 where David is saying he loves to be where God is, but what struck me was that David who was called, “a man after God’s own heart” was sitting there crying out to God, “don’t cast me away with the sinners and don’t let the bloodthirsty men kill me.” In the United States, we get an overinflated sense of importance and can easily put our wants and needs before our devotion to God. In David’s time God dwelt in the Tabernacle and later the Temple, but today through the sacrifice of Jesus and the filling of the Holy Spirit into us we are that tabernacle in which God dwells in each of us. Yet we still allow ourselves to put earthly things before Him even to the point that we create a god out of things in our lives. Let us ask God to show us where we have gotten out of order.

Prayer: Lord God, you are above all things, your ways are higher than my ways. You are worthy of all praise and honor. You are worthy of all obedience and I admit that I allow myself to get distracted and focus more on things that are not you. You deserve my devotion. I ask that you help me see what is taking me away from the place you have for me. Help me see the places in my life that I have allowed to get out of order.