Memorize & Obey!
"How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word."
Psalm 119: 9
There are many ways that health-conscious folks try to
ensure the purity of their physical bodies and improve
their health. Eating organically-grown foods,
drinking
pure water, breathing clean air, engaging in cleansing
fasts, cutting junk food, are ways to help detox our body.
Our world grows less pure, from a physical standpoint,
every day due to the pollution and all other toxicities.
What about our spiritual life? Our world certainly seems to
grow more spiritually toxic all the time, and it is impossible
to avoid encountering snares and temptations. So how do
we keep our spiritual “body” pure?
The psalmist had a solution: Store up God’s Word in our
heart so that we might not sin against Him and apply the
wisdom and direction His Word offers into our life
(Psalm 119: 9, 11).
Think about it: when we obey (apply) God’s Word, we won’t
choose to sin. And if we memorize (store up) God’s Word,
it will be within a thought’s reach when we are faced with
temptation.
The more we live “in” God’s Word, the purer
our life will be in the midst of a toxic world.
"God requires an inward purity as
well as an outward performance."
John Blanchard
