Daily Word

But I, through the abundance of your steadfast love, will enter your house. I will bow down before your holy temple in the fear of you. Lead me, O Lord, in your righteousness because of my enemies; make your way straight before me. For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue. Psalm 5:7-9. The writer knows that he is different from the wicked only because of God’s grace (abundance of your steadfast love). Is own sin would destroy him if God did not have compassion on him as he approached Go’s presence. The psalmist protests his innocence by stating his desire to worship the Lord (will enter your house). “Your house” and “your holy temple” may refer to the site where the temple would be built, or perhaps the tabernacle of the psalmists own time. The path of safety that God opens (your way) is also the path of obedience to His will. (Destruction…open grave) Note how evil speech brings death. Meditate for a few minutes today, and be reminded that we come before God only through “the abundance of His steadfast love”; and we must continually pray that God will lead us to walk in the way that is morally straight.