Set Jehovah Always Before Me
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
11/17/2019 PM
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Text:
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Psalm 16:8
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Psalters: |
199, 139, 355, 29 |
- Firm resolve.
- To “set” God before us is to have a deliberate and conscious resolve to have God front and center in all of my life and thoughts
- It is when the thought of God captivates all my senses and all my activity, and is the focus of my life.
- When the hubbub of this life obscures the sight of God, then extra effort is put forth to keep Him in my mind.
- The object and secret of faith is “Jehovah.”
- “Always” means that we constantly include Him in our mind’s eye.
- This we are to do in every situation, whatever comes my way, in every good and every hard time.
- In every responsibility and in every relationship, in every trial and difficulty, also in the face of death, Jehovah is before us.
- Jesus had God always in front of Him, so He was never distracted by anything from his view of Jehovah. Cf. Acts 2:25-31.
- Can you say this? Do you have Jehovah continually before you? Is this true of you? Am I God-conscious?
- The possibility for our being always in communion with God is the fact that He is always “at my right hand.”
- Jehovah puts Himself in this position/relationship, not we.
- When we do not set Jehovah before me always, then He is still here, even though I am not aware of Him.
- He assures this wretched sinner that I am over and over forgiven.
- And He assures me that He ever holds my hand and will not leave nor forsake me (Ps. 73:23).
- The great blessing is that “I shall not be moved.”
- Jesus, with God at His right hand, could not be moved from doing His Father’s will (John 6:38; Luke 9:22,51).
- For us, the strength of ours immobility comes from outside of us.
- Nothing else can stay a man’s soul but God only (cf. Psalm 125:1,2).
- This means that our lives are God-centered.