“I will conduct the
affairs of my house
with a blameless heart.
I will not look with
approval
on anything that is vile.”
Psalm 101:2b-3a
You enter your house
and you close your door.
“My castle is my
kingdom!” you say.
But if you are a
follower of Jesus Christ,
His Kingdom includes
your “castle”.
He has blessed you
with it.
Why do you suppose
the Psalm writer said he would conduct the
affairs of his house
with a blameless heart?
I think we must admit
that what we are in private can sometimes
be different than
what we want to project in public.
The Psalmist
recognized this struggle of human nature and declared not to follow it!
Think about the next
lines though.
“I will not look with
approval on anything that is vile.”
Keep in mind that
these words were written hundreds of years before internet surfing, television
or magazines.
They all can
broadcast ‘vile’ things into our homes.
Do we look with
approval on those things in our home?
Yes, each of them can
be used for good.
Yes, they can be used
to advance the Kingdom of God.
But they also can be
vexing to our Spirit if we do not conduct
the affairs of our
home with an upright heart.
May the timeless and
eternal Word of God challenge each of us
to conduct the
affairs of our home with a blameless heart!
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