The LORD's perfect law will REVIVE your soul.

Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul…

The Bible is referred to as “the law of the Lord” because the Bible is God’s Law that He has spoken to answer the question, “How are we to live daily in our earthly lives?”  The Bible, God’s Law, is a perfectly clear and sufficient answer to that question.  So, the great news is that no matter what our sins are today or what they may have been yesterday the Bible is able to turn us from our sins, lead us through our problems, and both feed and enrich us so that we are able to enjoy the full benefits of our spiritual life.  In other words, God’s perfect Law perfectly revives our soul by showing us how we are to live through His written Word and the incarnation of that Word in the life, love and sacrifice of Jesus Christ.  It is our responsibility then to submit to the Law of the Lord and then we will receive the great blessing of a revived soul.  Does your soul need reviving? Live obediently to God's law, the Bible, and claim His promise that He will revive your soul.

LORD, let us love Your Law.  Let us embrace Your perfect Law.  Let us look at Your Law as Your loving hand upon our lives to direct us and perfectly revive our dark souls.  We thank You for the life of Jesus Christ who has shown us through His life what the Law commands and for Him to fulfill the Law by living out the Law perfectly and becoming our perfect fulfillment of the Law.  Let us run to Your Law for direction and protection.  Revive our souls daily Lord as we follow your Laws.  In Jesus name, Amen.

"Whatever the Lord does" is beautiful.

Psalm 135:5-7  For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. Whatever the Lord pleases, He does, in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all deeps. He it is who makes the clouds rise at the end of the earth, who makes lightnings for the rain and brings forth the wind from his storehouses.

Psalm 19:1  The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

The reminders are everywhere in the Psalms that God fills creation with vividly clear loving reminders of who He is.  The heavens, the skies, the earth and the seas are the perfect over flow of God’s own beauty.  It is God’s desire to captivate us and capture our attention as we look at His creation and then not just say “WOW”, but they are there for us to say “WOW, God is beautiful, amazing, powerful, creative, caring, glorious!”  God wants us to do more than just look at His creation.  He wants us to rejoice and enjoy Himself through His creative work.  As we move about this week let us be sensitive to what God is communicating to us through the heavens, the earth and the seas.  Practice recognizing how glorious God is through His creative works.  The questions that we discussed yesterday that help us see God as glorious through His creative works are as follows. Ask these questions with you filling in the blank as you watch God display His goodness, wisdom and power through the theater of His creation:

1) What is God’s purpose in making ________________?

2)  How has God expressed His character through __________________?

Father, Creator of the heavens, skies, earth and sea, You are glorious, powerful, beautiful.  Thank You for letting us be a part of Your creation and letting us enjoy Your beauty.  It is clear that You care about being known as a beautiful God through what You let us enjoy in creation.  I pray that we also, individually in our personal lives, would mirror Your beauty on this earth.  Let this place, our homes, our workplace, our journeys all be more beautiful as we mirror Your beauty by living a righteous and holy life like Your Son Jesus Christ.  Thank you for Jesus and His perfect example of Your beauty. 

The LORD restores your soul perfectly.

Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving (restoring) the soul;

We are known by our Father in heaven who is not only perfect but His law perfectly revives our soul.  That makes me happy.  The Law is so “perfect”, that nothing can be taken from it, or added to it. The word Law can also be translated doctrine.  What is doctrine?  This is what God teaches about Himself, His ways, His requirements and how He works in our lives.  The LORD’s teachings about Himself and His requirements of us are perfect and they restore our lives from disorder, decay, sorrow, affliction, and from death. Through learning the Law we are restored from moral blindness to moral perfection as it restores us from sinfulness to righteousness.  That is only done through the work of Jesus Christ, who is the incarnation of God’s perfect Law.  Be restored perfectly today through the work of Jesus Christ who is fulfillment of God’s Law.  Knowing His Law is knowing Jesus.

Perfect Father in heaven, thank you for your perfect law that revives our soul perfectly.  LORD, please give us restoration from our sinfulness as we seek Jesus Christ the fulfillment of your Law.  Let us experience restoration in our minds, our hearts, our actions, our relationships, our families, our children.  Let our lives be lived with the desire to restore and not tear down.  You are the God of restoration, let that be our desire as we go throughout this day and everyday... Restoration.  In Jesus' perfect name, Amen.

His way is perfect. Always. Forever.

Psalm 18:30  This God—His way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; He is a shield for all those who take refuge in Him. 

On this Monday morning we rest in knowing and being known by our God who is without fault and has never been in error.  All of His actions in every life for all time have been perfectly merciful, just, loving and holy.   Every action in our own lives have been perfectly designed with divine tenderness and goodness for us.  We can move with confidence this Monday morning knowing that everything that God has designed for us this week has been determined with Godly perfection to make us complete and more like Christ for His glory.  We also have His Word that has proven to be true and will continue to be true for eternity.  So let us take refuge in Him and His Word, enjoying our perfect Father and Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. 

Father make us sensitive to Your perfections.  Let us see Your ways as perfect.  Let us walk with a humble confidence today and everyday knowing that You will be working this day that you have created in our lives as perfectly good.  Let this understanding permeate our thinking, decisions, purposes, actions as we live in this imperfect world.  LORD, we take refuge in You and we ask that You would draw us into Your perfect Word to see Your perfections more clearly.  You are our eternal shield through the work of Jesus Christ.  Thank You. 

And who is a Rock, except our God?

2 Samuel 22: 32-33 For who is God, but the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.

King David refers frequently to his LORD as his Rock.  What does the Lord want us to understand about Him being described as a Rock?  Our God is unchanging, constant, strong, firm, powerful, present, a solid reality, an underlying powerful foundation, and unshakable. As Robert Murray M'Cheyne said "The sea ebbs and flows, but the rock remains unmoved."  The last words of Jesus in His great Sermon on the Mount calls for us to build our house on the Rock, Christ Jesus.  Let us rest on the eternal Rock, Jesus Christ.  We worship our LORD who will not be moved and Who gives us stability in a world that ebbs and flows.

Father, give us a greater understanding of You as our Rock.  Give us strengthened faith and trust as we understand You as our powerful, unshakable, constant and unchanging LORD.  We call upon You now and ask that You will enter the areas of our lives that we have built upon the sands of our own efforts and replace that sand with You as our established eternal Rock.  Let our faith not be shaken.  In Jesus name, the Rock that saves, Amen.  

God keeps you as the little man in His eye.

Psalm 17: 8-9 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings, from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me. 

As obedient followers and lovers of Jesus Christ we are kept as the “apple of God’s eye.”  GCT, I wanted to remind us again as we go forward this week of the encompassing truth of the phrase “apple of Your eye.”  The Hebrew phrase calls this central apple or the pupil “the little man of the eye.”  We are preciously protected and cared for as being in the center of our Creator’s pupil.  What an amazing picture of how our LORD cares, protects, watches over and guards us.  He sees our every need and struggle. So, let’s do what David continually does throughout Psalms and bring our needs and struggles to the LORD knowing that as we are as the “little man in His eye” He will powerfully respond with clear vision of what our true needs are and the divine protection and care that only He can give.

Father, thank You for this beautiful reminder of how You have an eye upon us, Your children.  Thank You for this reassurance of divine protection and care as You watch us.  Lord, let this picture of who we are in Your caring sight give us great urgency to bring our needs and concerns to You.  Your protection and care are perfect.  Let the thought of us being in Your omniscient eye lead us to live lives that are holy and emboldened to do Your work.  Thank You for Your Son Jesus Christ who has made it possible for us as believers to be seen as Holy and blameless in Your sight.  Amen.