Psalm 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Think about these questions as you meditate on the verse. What does this verse teach me? How does this verse apply to my Life?
THE FRESH HEART TOUCH
Psalms 63:1-11
When a man has a heart-to-heart talk alone with God daily, he’s pretty apt to talk, with both life and lip, in the crowd for God. Keep the inner heart touch with God fresh, and the outer touches are sure to be true and winsome. The outer hinges on the inner. Your prayer-contacts control your contact with your fellows, and with commonplace things. The knees decide the language of the lips.
DON’T DROP YOUR FLAG
1Kings 18:30-39
The test must come. And it does. Every day brings it anew. A man must line up and show his colors. Satan is aggressive. Sin forces the issue. Selfishness knocks loud at the door daily. They push in, and demand space and recognition, and get it, too. Jesus earnestly asks that we be true to him. We should let the colors fly in home, and shop, and school, tactfully, graciously, but unmistakably.
CAN YOU HEAR?
Mark 8:14-26
What a thoughtful, wise Friend Jesus is! He gladly hears our prayer for bread and bed, shelter of roof, and strength of body. But he’s always reaching through these things to the higher, deeper, better things, teaching our minds, and wooing our hearts. There’s a voice speaking to us in the common things we receive today. He’s the wise man who hears and opens up his heart and life for the better things.
JESUS’LL NEVER FAIL YOU
Mark 8:1-13
Jesus gives before he asks. He gives more than he asks. He thinks into our need, of body, and life, and purse. He puts all his power at our command. He promises to fill full every lack of ours. He’ll do an act of creation before he’ll let his word fail any needing, trusting follower. Then he asks that we shall be as loyal to him under every circumstance as he is to us.
BE TRUE WHEN IT’S HARD
Mark 8:27-38
Jesus was true to us when he was down here. Yet it wasn’t easy. Being true was never harder. It drove him clear to Calvary’s shame. But he went. He never flinched. And he never fails us now. No matter how we have been untrue, or neglectful, or ashamed, or have ignored him, when we come, sorry, for help, he always gives it. Surely we’ll be true to him in speech and life, no matter how hard!