Psalm 119:14
“I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies,
as much as in all riches.”
Imagine what life would be like if all of
Christ’s children could honestly claim this verse that the Psalmist wrote. Many
of the problems and frustrations in our lives have to do with worrying about
material things and making them too much of a priority in our lives. These
things fill up our time, our thoughts, our actions, and we lose sight of what
we should be focusing on, and that is our relationship with Christ.
1Timothy 6:10 says,
“For the love of money is the root of all
kinds of evil: for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness,
and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
Do we really believe the truth of this verse?
It says pretty clearly that the love of money will very quickly bring our lives
to ruin. Maybe not the world’s idea of ruin, but think of what it does in our
relationship with God. If we love something more than God, haven’t we already come
to ruin with what we are really supposed to be living for?
The world sees money as the measure of our
success. The more a person has, the more successful a person is thought to be.
It’s almost as if we have to turn our
thinking all the way around from what we have known as success and ask God to
teach us His definition.
Now, I am not saying that money itself is a
bad thing. We need it and that’s why we must be thankful to the Lord for His
provision of it. But it is when we worry that we don’t have enough or are
always desiring more, that we have lost sight of our true purpose in life.
So what is this “way of His testimonies” that
we are to rejoice in?
It is a different path than this world takes
and I think at first we have to teach ourselves to find out what exactly is God’s
way versus the worlds way.
Psalm 1:2-3 says
“But his delight is in the law of the Lord…and
whatever he does shall prosper.”
We must learn to find delight, pleasure, contentment, and success in all of the blessings
that God has bestowed upon us! What are those blessings in our lives? We need
to find out! We need to ask the Lord to show us His ways, His will, and His
testimonies. Then we will be able to take those things and share them with
others and encourage one another to stay close to Jesus.
Let’s learn to “rejoice in the way of His
testimonies” as much as (if not more than) everything else in life!
