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Introduction
Perhaps you can remember what it was like as the school year was coming to a close.
Last minute projects, final exams, you could feel it getting closer and you were so glad it was about to be over.
Then that anticipated glorious last day finally happened.
Maybe if the truth be known you might have been secretly banging your head to the lyrics of the 70’s rocker Alice Cooper, “no more pencils, no more books, no more teacher’s dirty looks, school’s our for summer.”
Summer would begin and we would be determined that we would not have to do anything associated with learning for at least a few months.
In fact, in my neighborhood the only thing about learning that I attempted was learning how to hit my friend’s dad’s curve ball when he would pitch to us in our pick up games.
Sure there was work and chores and expectations from my parents during that summer break, but nevertheless, it was summer break!
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I never went to summer school.
I had friends that had to go and they told me of their misery.
Later in life I have learned that sometimes summer school was necessary to catch up or to perhaps even get ahead.
Advocates for year round school actually show that students learn better if they take shorter breaks from the classroom activities.
The older I get, the more I realize that my learning process works better if I don’t take a break and I strive to learn something everyday.
The same thing is true in our spiritual learning.
We should be students of God’s Word, spending time in it daily and continually learning about God and His marvelous love.
The more I study, the more I realize that I don’t know.
The more I learn, the bigger God gets and I realize that the Author of all knowledge wants me to learn more about Him and His incredible ways.
I recently was reminded of this concept as I read .
It is a fascinating verse that has made me commit to summer school and to year round school.
I want to challenge you in your spiritual growth to make a commitment to use this as a platform for your continued growth and learning.
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This whole chapter is a prayer of David as he relates to God’s sovereignty.
David,in this verse, applies it to his life.
One powerful concept of scripture that I have learned is that if the Biblical character can apply this truth to his or her life, I also can apply it to my life.
In this one verse, you and I can see the need to make this a daily prayer so that we can learn continually.
Notice the first
We have four different requests that David makes that we should make as well.
First, teach me your way, O Lord.
Teach Me Your Way
David was taught well in the things of God.
However, he realized that he needed further instructions.
David recognized the fact that often he could not trust his own judgement.
The Psalmist prayed for instruction that he might be even more fruitful in knowing God and His greatness.
He desired to know God’s way.
I have discovered that Mitch’s way often leads me down paths of selfishness but if I seek God’s way, it becomes by far the best way.
Moses recognized this as well.
Exod
We find more emphasis about God’s ways in
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Psalm 27:
Isaiah reminds us that God will not only show us His way but He will also speak to us about it:
Isaiah
When we realize that God has a way for us to go, it takes the guessing out of it.
We have seen the news reports of Amanda Eller and her miraculous rescue in the forest in Hawaii.
She spent over two weeks lost in the forest trying to figure out the way to her car.
The more she tried, the more lost she became.
The same thing happens to you and me when we try to find our own way spiritually.
The beautiful verses in Proverbs that many of you have on a plaque are very insightful.
Proverbs 3:
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remind us to remove ourselves from our own understanding and replace them with God’s ways.
When we turn our steps to His statues, to His word, we begin to do what the second part of David’s prayer.
We then are asking God to teach us about His path.
Teach Me Your Path
You say, “Come on Mitch, that phrase is not in .”
David prays, “Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth.”
Well, where do you walk?
God has designed a path each of us to travel on doing His will.
If we are taught the ways of God, then we will walk in the pathway He has for us.
The Hebrew word for walk is AHALLEEK.
It is referring to behavior.
When David is saying, “I will walk in your truth,” he is indicating a pathway that is of God and for God.
It is a place that we also learn from His word that He will give us light for every step in His word.
Remember the assurance in :
Deuteronomy
We learn the path of God from His word, so it is to our
advantage to study God’s word.
We can do this in Sunday School, in a small group, and even through our scripture writing plans that you are encouraged to do.
Are you a student of God’s word?
I encourage you to be so!
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David says that this path is the very truth of God.
“I will walk in your truth.”
No where in scripture does it ever says that God is a lie.
All scripture points to the fact that God is truth.
The Hebrew word for truth is AMIT.
It means firmness, trustworthiness, constancy, duration and faithfulness.
When we say we walk in God’s truth, we are saying we will walk according to the declarations of His word.
We know from many scriptures that God’s way is the best.
We can trust God’s design and plan for us.
He is solid.
His ways are perfect and just.
He is faithful, He will not wrong us.
He is upright.
If all that is true,then why do we worry?
Why do we fret?
Why do we think, “Yea God, Your way is best but I still want to go this way?”
We have to come to the point in our lives that we declare just as David did in :
Are you allowing God to teach you His ways?
Are you allowing God to show you his paths?
Are you allowing God to guide you in truth?
If the answer is no, then the truth of the matter is one of two things: either you don’t have a relationship with Him, or you are allowing your heart to be divided.
That is why David prays the third part of this prayer, “Give me an undivided heart.”
When you ask for an undivided heart, you are asking, “Teach me to be whole.”
Teach Me How to be Whole
The Hebrew word for UNDIVIDED means united, to designate exclusively, to concentrate.
The use of “heart” in Bible occurs over 1000 times.
It represents the physical heart where it indicates life.
It represents the psychological aspects as well as intellectual aspects.
It can express emotion.
It can choose good or bad.
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