Psalm 19:14 (ESV)
14Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of
my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord,
my rock and my redeemer.
I am not sure I can count all the times that someone has
said within hearing range of me, “Don’t say that at church! Or Don’t talk like
that he’s a pastor.”
Yet, very few people in today’s society seemed to be concerned
with what God thinks of what they are saying.
Maybe a church building or a pastor help give God “flesh” and are
therefore are convicting, but as one
considers the verse before us today we must be reminded that God sees and knows
all that we say.
If I place myself in front of the holy and almighty ,
creator and sustainer of the universe, would my words be different? Does God’s omniscience (complete knowledge)
of my words concern me? It should! He has given us standards in His Word for
what type of communication should come out of our mouths.
Yet, this verse goes beyond our speech to that on which we
are meditating. What is our mind
continually mulling over when we are not forced to be thinking about a task
before us? The psalmist here recognizes
that his meditation can be either pleasing or displeasing to God. The things that I meditate on should please
Him.
Some may ask, “Just what is meditation?” As I look up the meaning it says, “to murmur,
or a moaning”. I am reminded of when I
was a school teacher. I loved to give
pop quizzes in science because it made the students review their notes each
morning. It was therefore not uncommon
as the students came into class to have them reciting over and over again to
themselves whatever the content was. As
we studied the solar system we might hear a large number of students saying,
“Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.”
They were meditating upon the planets of the solar
system! If God can be either pleased or
displeased with what we meditate on then we had better find out some of the
things that are pleasing to Him.
Yesterday, in our “First Word” we saw that “God’s Word” should be our
meditation day and night. May we work to
please God as we set our mind to meditate upon His Word as one of the things
that we know will please Him!
The verse finishes with a statement of confidence that God
is both His Rock and his Redeemer. I
hope that you too look to God as the foundation for your life and that you have
been redeemed through the blood of Jesus Christ His Son.
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