HOW WE LIVE AT HOME
07th May 2014
David seemed to be grappling with a very familiar challenge in his own personal life, Psalm 101:2 in the Living Bible says, “I will try to walk a blameless path, but how I need your help; especially in my own home, where I long to act as I should.”
How are you getting on living your faith in your own home? So often this is the most difficult place, and it seems that David struggled with it too. “How I long to act as I should” was the cry of his heart.
It can be easy to appear good and without issues when we are in the public gaze. Many times I have looked out at those gathered in Church, all looking so perfect and appearing to have everything sorted, not appearing as if they have any problems or worries! Or is that smiling countenance hiding so many fears and dilemmas?
Behind the closed doors of our homes it is so easy to erupt angrily, to lose patience with those we love. We can act selfishly and please ourselves rather than others. We can let discouragement and fear grip our hearts, when God has all the resources we need
I found the words in that Psalm very challenging, and I know that when David said, “How I need your help,” I too need God’s help. There is no doubt in my mind that King David, who loved God so deeply, still needed to cry out constantly for God’s help to live right.
Psalm 86:11 says, “Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me and undivided heart.....”
In Psalm 19:14, David again cries out, “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.”
So Lord, today, in the privacy of my own home, among my family and those I love, let me live in a way that brings glory to You.
by Charles Sibthorpe
