Coming to God's Level.

Psalm 143:10
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.

Have you ever felt like you're being bombarded with so many thoughts at once? It happens, does it not? It can be a whole mixture of thoughts: good thoughts, bad thoughts, middle ground thoughts. Either way these thoughts are influential in some way. We either say them or keep them to ourselves. Sometimes we say the wrong thing.

If you listen hard enough and are actively involved in the Word of God then you very well could hear some things that God is saying to you. You might not know it's God, as you may think it's your conscience. If they're thoughts that can benefit the lives of others, then I'd say it's pretty safe to claim those words as God's.

These words by God are to help keep you on the right path, among other things. He wants you to follow him. It takes some practice, if you will, to hear these callings, but these are not only the words of God, but they are words of his Holy Spirit to fill your hearts with his thoughts.

The scripture says "Lead me on level ground." Why level ground? Why not up a mountain, since that's they way you think you'd head with God? We know that the writer of this Psalm is crying out to God to save him from his foul thoughts. By saying "lead me on level ground" the writer means that he doesn't want to have any thoughts that show superiority over God. He now wants to follow God's will.

Do you feel like you can ask God to "lead you on level ground"? Or do you feel like you're up above, on the highest mountain? Or do you feel even like you're deep below the sea? You don't want to underestimate God's power either. Try to bring yourself up or down respectively to the surface so that you can be right on cue with God's word.

"It certainly must help us if we recognize that it is the presence of the Holy Spirit which creates a unity which we can never create." ~Roland Allen

Here's the song "Heaven Is The Face" by Steven Curtis Chapman.


It's 09/09/09!!!