“The Lord is my portion;
I have promised to keep Your words.
I sought Your favor with all my heart;
Be gracious to me according to Your word.
I considered my ways
And turned my feet to Your testimonies.
I hastened and did not delay
To keep Your commandments.
The cords of the wicked have encircled me,
But I have not forgotten Your law.
At midnight I shall rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your righteous ordinances.
I am a companion of all those who fear You,
And of those who keep Your precepts.
The earth is full of Your lovingkindness, O Lord;
Teach me Your statutes.” (Psalm 119:57-64 NASB1995)
If the Lord is my portion, what does that mean? He is my
inheritance, my reward, my security, and the one in whom I place my trust and to
whom I give control of my life, my heart, my service, and my obedience. He is
the one I live for, to serve him with my life. He is King, and he is Lord, and
there is no other who surpasses him. I am not looking to any other to fulfill
me and to give me purpose and direction, for he is my life and my purpose.
And since he is my portion, my heart’s desire is that I
might live to please him in all that I am and do and say. But I am still clay
in the hands of the Potter, in the process of being molded into the likeness of
character of Christ Jesus my Lord, being made holy by my Master, whom I serve
with my life. I am a disciple (follower) of Jesus Christ (of God, the Son), and
so I am daily yielded to his will and purpose for my life, in obeying his call
upon my life.
I do consider my ways, not that my ways are always perfect
in every respect. But I have turned away from sin and, by the grace of God, and
in the power of God, I am now able to walk in holiness and in righteousness, in
obedience to my Lord and to his commands, and to his will and purpose for my
life, which he had planned for me even before he created me in the womb of my
mother. All the days ordained for me were written in his book.
But this isn’t just about me. I was just identifying with
the Psalmist. This should be representative of everyone who is a true disciple
of Jesus Christ, who has died with Christ to sin, and has been raised with
Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin,
but now as slaves to God and to his righteousness, in holy living. The Lord
should be for all of us our portion, and our commitment should be to fully obey
his commands.
And, if this is true about us, the cords of the wicked will
indeed encircle us to attempt to conquer us and to bring us under their control
and not under Holy Spirit control. For Satan will “pull out all the stops” to attempt
to get us to fail and to turn away from the Lord and from his will and purpose
for our lives. So he will bring people against us to accuse us falsely of what
we did not do in hopes to make us afraid so that we will give up and run away.
Knowing that this is what is taking place, it should only
strengthen us all the more to keep fighting the good fight of faith, and to
keep persevering in the call of God to be his witnesses, and to take the true
gospel message to the people of the world, and to refute the lies of Satan, and
to proclaim the truth of God’s Word. For so many people are believing and
following after lies and not after the truth of God’s word, while believing
they are heaven bound.
And we should pray that the Lord will bring other Christians
into our lives who are following the Lord, in truth, who are those who walk in
the fear of the Lord, in obedience to his commands, and whose lives are
committed to the Lord and to his service. We can be an encouragement to one
another, to help one another to keep walking the walk of faith and to not give
up when we are opposed by Satan because of our walks of obedience to the Lord.
[Matt 5:13-16; Matt
28:18-20; Lu 6:27-28; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Ac 1:8; Ac 2:14-18; Ac
26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Gal 6:1;
Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:11-27; Eph 6:10-20; Php 2:1-8; Col 1:9; Col 3:12-16;
Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; Jas 5:19-20; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6; Jude
1:22-23]
A Believer’s Prayer
An Original Work / July 31, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
With my whole heart,
Lord, I pray
To be Yours, and
Yours always.
Lead me in Your
truth today.
May I love You, and
obey.
Lead me in Your
righteousness.
When I sin, may I
confess;
Bow before You when
I pray;
Live for You and You
always.
Love You, Jesus,
You’re my friend.
Life with You will
never end.
You are with me
through each day,
Giving love and
peace always.
You will ne’er
abandon me.
From my sin You set
me free.
You died on that
cruel tree,
So I’d live
eternally.
Soon You’re coming
back for me;
From this world to
set me free;
Live with You
eternally.
Oh, what joy that
brings to me.
I will walk with You
in white;
A pure bride, I’ve
been made right
By the blood of
Jesus Christ;
Pardoned by His
sacrifice.
The Lord is My Portion
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