July 30, 2025 -- Psalm 119:35 -- Not get this quick, but daily faithfulness

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Lead me in the path of your commandments,
for I delight in it.
Psalm 119:35 ESV
 
If you type “get rich quick” into your search engine, you’ll find there are pages and pages of books for sale, websites, videos, and scheme galore. How to lose weight, fast. Again, you can endlessly scroll through pages, websites, videos and self-help books. There are all kinds of short-cuts available to do this or get that done. Fix your marriage. Gullible people are aiming for short-cuts in every area of life.
 
The Bible offers a striking contrast. For 176 verses, the psalmist is dedicating himself to the path of the Lord, to His rules and precepts. While the world is calling for quick fixes, he realized that a long-steady, faithful journey in obedient service to Jesus Christ is the only way to live a fulfilled and blessed life.
 
Consider God’s pattern. There is a season of dormancy: winter. There is a season for warmth and planting and growth: Spring. A season for fruit and vegetables as the summer sun does its work in ripening fruit: summer. A time for preparing for harvest and preparing for the season of winter: Fall. Year in. Year out. Decade in. Decade out. Century in. Century out. God lovingly works His creation and cares for His people who are born, live and die. And the seasons continue. A constant, regular, steady display of His faithfulness.
 
Dear people of God, allow God to lead you. Read your bible. Pray every day. Attend church. Listen to preachers who know the word and can explain it clearly. Daily put into practice the commandments so that you will walk the path of God’s commandments. Day in. Day out. Week in. Week out. Month in. Month out. You’ll find that the pattern of obedience to Jesus Christ lived out in this way does indeed bring great delight.
 
Teach me, O LORD, the way of your statutes; and I will keep it to the end.
Psalm 119:33 ESV
 
https://youtu.be/FSHe-kibZDg?si=QMigMTa90oUQRntQ “Teach Me Thy Way”
 

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