Psalm 119:1-81 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD!
2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
3 who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways!
4 Thou hast commanded thy precepts to be kept diligently.
5 O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!
6 Then I shall not be put to shame, having my eyes fixed on all thy commandments.
7 I will praise thee with an upright heart, when I learn thy righteous ordinances.
8 I will observe thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly!
http://www.mcleanbible.org/uploads/12-05-04.pdf How to Finish Well
Lon Solomon is Senior Pastor for McLean Bible Church in McLean, Virginia. He wrote an interesting sermon, called How to Finish Well, comparing & contrasting the lives of different men. Some were in baseball and the other is St. Paul. He looks at maps of Paul’s travels and examines biblically what happened to Paul.
Then Lon Solomon tells about a woman asking to pray for Lon. Lon said that the most important prayer she could pray for him was to end well. Lon makes the point that either we can be like Paul “who fought the good fight. The Lord can say to him, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Or we could hear “wow, you really made a mess of things.”
The sermon says there are 4 things we can do to help us start and end well as followers of Jesus Christ:
“ 1. Stay vitally connected to the Word of God. Psalm 119 assures us that staying connected to the Word of God keeps our lives pure and clean and to stay out of the ditch spiritually (Verses 119:9, 11)
2. Psalm 119: 24 Your statutes are my delight; they are my counselors. Staying in the Word of God provides us built in spiritual counseling.
3. Psalm 119: 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path. Staying connected to the Word of God is a halogen light for the path of our life, keeping us out of the bear traps set by the evil one.
4. Psalm 119: 98, 99 Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. Staying closely connected to the Word of God, memorizing the Word of God, meditating on the Word of God, protects us from the temptations of life, the bad decisions of life, the poor choices in life that cause us to self-destruct, and finish our lives poorly. God wants to give us spiritual insight and discernment in our lives that is supernatural.
Are you staying vitally connected to the Word of God each and every day, each and every week of your life?”
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