Psalm 119:168

Psalm 119:168 “I obey Your precepts and statutes, for all my ways are known to You.”
 

Precepts are the instructions God gives is for life. They are the how-to’s, when’s, and where’s are all laid out to You. Therefore, it would be wisdom on my part to follow your precepts and your statutes rather than my own. 
 

Have you ever put a plan together and then later asked God to forgive you for putting your plan before His? We are full of our own ways. Solomon once said, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death” Proverbs 14:12. 

David so wanted to follow the precepts and statutes of God that he prayed, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts” Psalm 139:23. He, in essence, said, “Show me my heart. Show me the things that are in my heart that are not of You. Show me the plans that I have in my heart that are contrary to Your plans.” Then he said, “Test me and know my thoughts.” Now that is a courageous prayer, one we should all pray regularly. 

Thoughts have to do with desires. Anything that is a desire of your heart occupies your thoughts. Our “plans” typically evolve out of the thoughts that occupy our hearts. This is why we are to take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ. When our thoughts (desires) are obedient to Christ, we won’t find ourselves doing our own thing. 

He then goes on to pray in the next verse, “See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” Psalm 139:24. An offensive way can be as simple as any “way” that is not in God’s direction. It wouldn’t even need to be a sinful way for it to be an offensive way. We want to be in the “way everlasting.” That “way” is determined by God. All our “ways” are known to God already. All we need to do now is submit them to God.
 

I encourage you to take some time to meditate on this verse, as you do; commit your “ways” unto Him.   Continued