“Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.” - Psalms 119v80
By what standards do we tend to measure ourselves regarding holiness and godly living? It is very tempting to compare ourselves to others and think things like – “Well, I am certainly not as bad as this or that person, I must be okay, because he is a good Christian.”
God sets a must higher standard. The psalmist presents the standard that God expects us to hold to – “I will be sound (blameless) in your word.” We only have one place to look when we are examining our lives to see how they please God, and that is His word.
Then, and only then, can we say with the psalmist – “…I will not be ashamed.”
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