Prov 8:20 [ESV] I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice.
Today when I woke up at 5am, I got up and had a litre of water with fresh lemon juice in it. As I do each morning. Then I sent out my scripture for the day to those people who are doing this journey with me – as I do every day. Then I had my prayer time, where as part of it there is a long list of people and needs that I have chosen to pray for – each day. After that I sit and go through a scripture, looking at language, context, etc and pondering on each word – each day. Then I will go and sit with my wife Wendy as she is finishing her quiet time and we will have a chat together – every day.
Next is some weights, some stretches and some breathing exercise – each day. And I’m away to work – where my role just now is to help bring the Gospel to fifteen thousand inmates and their families across NSW.
Why do I do all this – it’s a daily choice, that’s how God has led me to start to walk out my life with him each day.
Please don’t leave this part of today’s reading thinking that I am some sort of perfect person (just ask Wendy) – it’s just that these are my choices each day – and I want to encourage you, if you have not already started on this journey, to consider what your daily choices could maybe look like?
KNOWLEDGE – each day when we wake up we have this choice before us – how will we live today? This passage over the last few days, and today, demonstrates a value in healthy relationship based living (with God). There is a prosperity that goes with the discipline, a blessing that goes with the choices, and a strength that comes from the purposefulness.
We get to choose. When, for instance someone says “he made me angry” – in my mind I have the understanding that they had a choice and they chose anger – that, in fact, no person has the genuine power to make you angry – you always have a choice. What will you and I choose today?
UNDERSTANDING
Let’s pick one word from this verse to look closer at and see if that can help us gain a deeper insight into how God would love us to live?
The word used for “walk” in this scripture, is pronounced as “halak” in Hebrew, and carries the meaning “to walk, to go, and to travel and to walk as a lifestyle”.
In the LXX the Koine Greek word used is – περιπατώ [peripato], and this word appears 96 times in the New Testament, translated as to literally “walk”.
WISDOM
What path will I choose to walk along today?
STRENGTHS THOUGHT: Belief as a Gallup Strength is dependable, others know where you stand – remember to take time to honour others good values as well.
Allan’s Unauthorised Version – I travel as a lifestyle and in the manner of my conduct in acting according to God’s proper standards, along a pathway of prescribed justice.
I walk – I travel as a lifestyle
in the way of – and in the manner of my conduct
righteousness – in acting according to God’s proper standards
in the paths of – along a pathway
justice – of prescribed justice.
PRAYER: Father, thank you for today. Help me to walk hand in hand with you each day.
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