Moment With The Master
“Acceptable to God”
"Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer." (Psalms 19:14)
Being acceptable to God is often thought of in terms of approved behavior. So, if we assemble with the saints, practice the prescribed forms of worship, and live a fairly decent life, we are surely accepted by God! However, the above passage suggests a deeper level of acceptability in which God approves of the thoughts of our heart!
This later requirement is far more challenging. It means that God not only wants the outside, but also the inside! He not only desires for us to behave as he behaves, but to think as he thinks. He wants us to have the humble mindset like His son (Phil. 2:5) and to approve of only of His standard of moral excellence (Phil. 1:9,10). We are to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.(II Cor. 10:5) Therefore, we must learn to love only the things that God loves and to hate the things that God hates. We must be merciful as God is merciful, patient as he is patient, and just as he is just. We must learn to have the ambitions of God namely that His will be done!
Just how can we learn to have such a mindset? The word meditation points to the proper route to our success. Let
the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer. Thus, the meditation of Gods law must be our delight (Ps. 1:2) and we must contemplate on His ways. (Ps. 119:15) This will surely help us to achieve our desired goal!
by George Slover, Jr.
