#9 How To Walk in Psalm 86:11

All good things do come to an end, and that is what summer was like for me. You have heard about many different stories from my summer experience at Christian Wee Learn, but sadly even that had to come to an end in August. So here I am at the end of the verses that I, along with the kids, committed to memory this summer. This is Psalm 86:11:

Teach me your way; O Lord,
That I may walk in your truth;
Unite my heart to hear your name.

Again, this verse has a very simple but powerful message. And to borrow the VBS motto from the summer, "Know the Truth, Speak the Truth, Live the Truth." We should be seeking God each day, learning more about Him as we go through life. This is how we learn more of who He is. This is how we build that relationship with Him. But it cannot end there. We cannot become content and learning many great things about God and never applying them to our daily lives.

So just as we go around learning who He is and asking Him to teach us more about Him, we must also share that with others. We have to speak the truth. Others are wanting to know who this God is that we worship. And we have the answers when we truly come to know Him. We can share it with them, and God even commands us to do so in Matthew 28:19-20. So why is it that we do not share it with others?

I think that a lot of it comes from our lack of living it out. We have all of this head knowledge about God and the Christian life. But since we fail to apply it our life, we cannot adequately explain it to others. And they notice this right away. When we say one thing and do another, they notice the hypocrisy. Almost any lost person will tell you that they are not in the church because the church is full of hypocrites. Well, they have a valid observation.

Now I am not condemning the church, but I am asking you to consider if your life is a life of hypocrisy. Do you say one thing and do another? Do you truly know who God is and do you live that out each day? If so, then people will take notice and will come more likely to accepting your declarations about God as truth. But when you go around living like the world, they see no reason to believe you.

So my challenge is for you to examine your life. Consider how you live on a daily basis. Are you living according to Scripture? And if so, are you sharing Him with others?

Matt