"How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to your Word."
Psalm 119:9 (NKJV)
When I was a child, I did not always keep my room as clean as I should have. Although my parents told me to clean my room, that meant something different to me than it did to them. Today, people have different ideas about what it means to keep things clean, what a standard for cleanliness is, and even what is right and wrong. What might be right in the eyes of one person for how they live their life, may be seen as completely wrong by another person.
People's ideas about things can be completely different, unless they have a similar standard. This is the real problem in a lot of areas today, people's standards vary and for most people there is no real objective standard. This can create problems because with no objective standard, people can do things all kinds of different ways, and right and wrong can mean different things to different people. However, for Christians, our standard is God's Word, the Bible. It shows us right and wrong and what is true and false.
There are people today who ask the same kind of question that David asked in Psalm 119, how can I clean up my way of life and do things right? David realized that in order to live the right kind of life he had to live his life according to God's Word, that is the only real objective standard we can use. If we don't have a standard for what is right or wrong; our life will end up in a mess. Our standard for life has to be God's Word. By putting God's Word in first place in our life we will know how to live the right way and how to have a blessed life.
Psalm 119:9 (NKJV)
When I was a child, I did not always keep my room as clean as I should have. Although my parents told me to clean my room, that meant something different to me than it did to them. Today, people have different ideas about what it means to keep things clean, what a standard for cleanliness is, and even what is right and wrong. What might be right in the eyes of one person for how they live their life, may be seen as completely wrong by another person.
People's ideas about things can be completely different, unless they have a similar standard. This is the real problem in a lot of areas today, people's standards vary and for most people there is no real objective standard. This can create problems because with no objective standard, people can do things all kinds of different ways, and right and wrong can mean different things to different people. However, for Christians, our standard is God's Word, the Bible. It shows us right and wrong and what is true and false.
There are people today who ask the same kind of question that David asked in Psalm 119, how can I clean up my way of life and do things right? David realized that in order to live the right kind of life he had to live his life according to God's Word, that is the only real objective standard we can use. If we don't have a standard for what is right or wrong; our life will end up in a mess. Our standard for life has to be God's Word. By putting God's Word in first place in our life we will know how to live the right way and how to have a blessed life.
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