God is The Strength of My Heart

This psalm is in the Old Testament, and yet it teaches us what is taught us in the New Testament, under the New Covenant, as well. 

“Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth.” (Psalm 73:25 NASB1995)

Our trust should not be in other humans. We should not depend on other humans, no matter who they are, to tell us the absolute truth about anything. For not everyone tells the truth. There are many liars and deceivers among us whose goal it is to lie to us and to deceive us and to misrepresent the truth in order to deliberately lead as many as possible to believe the lies and to reject the truth. So we need to be students of the Scriptures who study them in their correct biblical context so that we are learning the truth, and so God can reveal to us any lies we are believing.

God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – should be the one we look to for truth, and not other humans, and not history books, and not politicians, and not the news media (not even the alternative news media), and not pastors of church fellowships, etc., many of whom are lying to the people. Following the Lord Jesus with our lives, and obeying our Lord’s commands, should take top priority in our lives, as well. For how we live our lives should be led by the Spirit of God and not by our human flesh. And our desires should be God’s desires. And his ways should be our ways. 

“My flesh and my heart may fail, But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” (Psalm 73:26 NASB1995)

We who believe in Jesus Christ to be Lord and Savior of our lives should be those who have been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin, but as servants of the Lord and of his righteousness, in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living. Sin should no longer be what we practice, i.e. what we keep going back to as a dog returns to his vomit. But we should be followers of Jesus Christ who are living to do his will because we love Him.

But as those who still live in flesh bodies, we are works of God in process, and that process will not be complete until Jesus returns for his faithful ones and he takes us to be with him for eternity. We are still clay in the hands of the Potter (God), being molded to the image of Christ, as we cooperate fully with God’s work of grace in our lives. But that does not make us perfect. And, yet lack of perfection should never be used as an excuse for continued, deliberate, and habitual sin against our Lord. We must obey God in practice.

“For, behold, those who are far from You will perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.” (Psalm 73:27 NASB1995)

This is not just Old Testament teaching. This is what Jesus and his apostles taught us in the New Testament, as well, under the New Covenant. For faith in Jesus Christ is not something we just profess with our lips while we continue living however we want, doing what our sinful hearts desire. Faith, which is biblical, and which comes from God, and which is gifted to us by God, and which is not of our own doing, but which is persuaded of God, requires that we deny self, die to sin daily, and follow our Lord in obedience.

And the New Testament teaches us that if we do not follow our Lord in obedience, and if we continue walking in deliberate and habitual sin against our Lord, and so we are unfaithful to God, and if that is where we remain, that we will not have salvation from sin, and we will not inherit eternal life with God, regardless of what we profess with our lips. For faith = obedience, and disobedience = unbelief. So all who make sin their practice, and not obedience to God, will not inherit eternal life with God. God says so!

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18] 

As the Deer 

By Martin J. Nystrom

Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after You

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield

To You alone may my spirit yield

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship You

 

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