“For in a visitation of the night you inspected my heart and refined my soul in fire until nothing vile was found in me. I’ve wanted my words and my ways to always agree. Following your word has kept me from wrong. Your ways have molded my footsteps, keeping me from going down the paths of the destroyer. My steps follow in the tracks of your chariot wheels, always staying in their path, never straying from your way.”
I love this picture of how we can stay on the path the Lord has for us and not get off on the wrong track. It starts with allowing God to inspect our hearts and cleanse us from sin and it starts with a desire to live authentically - with our words and actions lining up with one another. The Psalmist goes to tell us that believing and following the Word of God keeps us from going down wrong paths and keeps us perfectly aligned with the Lord. The picture of walking in the tracks of the Lord’s chariot wheels is so vivid. If you think about walking in chariot tracks, it seems like it would be easy to stay on track and probably would take some deliberate act on our part to get off track. The Lord does not make it hard for us to follow Him. It really starts with a desire to follow Him and the will to do it.
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