Looking at the Montana blue sky and sunshine this morning warms my heart as well as my body. Seems like it’s been a long winter even though it’s only March. During the snowy months I whine a lot. The dreary days seem long and tiring and I forget that there is a law in nature that we will always have the four seasons and this will pass!
Life is like that. Sometimes the problems and difficulties seem like they will go on forever. In fact sometimes we choose to live in the difficult season longer than we should. Some of us (and I am talking to me as well) have let our past (anything previous to this moment) hold us back for years.
If I would look toward spring, recognizing the winter season as a time to plan, retreat, and nurture the ground for the planting season I would not get so weary. And it’s equally true that if we would change our focus away from our problems we could move forward. But how do we do that?
Psalm 119:45 says, “And I will walk at liberty and at ease, for I have sought and inquired and desperately required Your precepts.”
A precept is an instruction that guides our action. In the kingdom of heaven a precept has all the authority of our God behind it. It’s like a legal document. Not in the sense of a harsh judge who is waiting to punish us but instead it’s backed up with an absolute assurance that if we follow the precept we will gain the promise behind it.
We may trip temporarily over a circumstance, problem, or experience in life but we are not meant to stay down. We can’t trust completely in ourselves or others to lift us out of the problem. But we can trust in what God has promised.
The promise behind the precept will always come to pass even if it doesn’t necessarily look the way we think it should. As we act according to His instruction, it’s the promise we hang on to and look towards that keeps us free and at ease.
What problem are you facing today? What is holding you back from a life of liberty and peace? What precept has God given for this situation?
Whatever you are facing there is a precept that covers it. Find it, act on it, and you can be sure you will find freedom and ease in your life’s journey.
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