MEDITATIONS FROM THE PSALMS

 

January 19, 2005

Reading: Psalm 43

 

“Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me” Ps 43:3

 

Meditate this morning, my soul, on these words and be grateful that you live this side of the cross. That for which the Psalmist prayed need never pass through your lips because God has already answered it. You will not have to meditate for long before you realize that when the scriptures speak of the leadings and path of life they always point to your Savior, the Lord Jesus.

Sin has caused you to be wretched in the eyes of your Creator, so wretched that that even He could find only one way to make things right. You needed to be reconciled to your God and our verse tells you how He accomplished it—He sent out His Light and His Truth. No one but Jesus can honestly say, “I am the Light of the World.” Only He can declare before a fallen world “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.” There is no other Way to enter the presence of God.

You cannot traverse the Path of Life and walk in darkness, for He who holds your hand is the Light of God. God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all. You cannot walk in company with Him who is the Truth of God and not know what is right. Oh, how the Holy Spirit convicts your heart when you choose to live a lie. He is faithful, my soul, to chastise you if necessary until you see the Light and recognize the Truth. You know the Truth yet you so often choose a lie. How foolish you are, yet how patient He is. Your foolishness does not cause Him to cast you aside but rather He draws you deeper into His Light and Truth.

Learn to cast yourself constantly upon Him for you need His strength to keep you from choosing foolishly. Your strength will fail you every time, but His will enable you. You can because He can.

 

Lead me, dear Lord, and I will follow. Lead me with Your Light and Truth, and I will come to Your holy hill and to Your tabernacle. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God.

 

“My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.”