Psalm 119:59 (NLT)
I pondered the direction of my life,
and I turned to
follow your laws.
Has this happened to you? We were searching for the TV
remote again this week. We looked in the sofa, under the chair, behind the end
table... in the kitchen. We looked everywhere.
Every time we plan to watch something on TV at my house,
we have to build in an extra half hour for the remote search. Show starts at
8:00 Central? If we don't want to miss the first half we have to start the hunt
in Mountain Time. If the kids had the remote last, it's likely more like
Pacific.
The TV remote doesn't have one of those pager buttons
like the cordless phone. Why can't the remote simply sense that it's 10 feet or
more from the TV, sprout some little mechanical legs and maneuver its way back
toward the sofa? With little legs it might even be able to crawl out from the
depths of the chair cushion.
Or maybe we could at least push some sort of pager that
would make it send out little puffs of smoke. Yeah, smoke signals. That could
work.
Of course, I guess we could use all the energy we spend
searching for the remote to simply walk over to the TV and push the buttons on
the set. No, that would be weird. It's just not our way. And you can't flick
through 30 channels per second. Isn't it strange, though, that sometimes we'll
take all the time looking for the remote instead of just getting up and pushing
the buttons. Misdirected energies?
Spiritual misdirection happens when we stop looking to
the Lord for true direction. It's something to think about. In fact, the
psalmist thought about it in Psalm 119:59: "I pondered the direction of my
life, and I turned to follow your laws." We learn here that when we see
our lives headed in the wrong direction, it's not enough just to think about
it. We need to turn. Turn and follow the Lord through his word. Verse 64 says,
"O LORD, your unfailing love fills the earth; teach me your decrees"
(NLT).
The only right direction is his direction--and to top it
all off, we can know that his direction is forever and always the direction of
amazing, unfailing love.
Dear Lord, help us put the remote down today and come directly
to You. We thank You that You are always there and never lost. In Jesus’ Name,
Amen.
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