Psalm 37:6-8 English Standard Version
6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday. 7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! 8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
This relates to yesterday’s call to let go and let God in that God is the one who acts on our behalf. Fret not is a call to be patient with ourselves. How we want to respond to those people who need His love is at odds with the will of God. It is us answering in the flesh.
Being human we slip up and it is in those moments we realize why we need to be patient with ourselves when we do not do those things we want to do. It’s Romans 7 being played out in our lives. Taking those verses into account we remember the answer to our dilemma, “thank God of Jesus Christ!”
It is Christ in us, His living Word, which is the answer to our dilemma. It becomes evident that the more we know God’s Word the more we can trust God to provide a way to shine in dark times.
Our justice at noonday is not a legal matter, it is doing the right thing in that moment because we have learned to wait on the Lord and not to act out because of performance anxiety. It is part of being “anxious for nothing.” Learning to do right, to be just, is a learning experience based on making mistakes.
We all make mistakes. It is the reason He offers forgiveness freely. He knows we will make mistakes. Over time we will discover our mistakes have less to do with sin than it does in not rightly divining the Word.
Failing to divine His Word rightly is not a sin. It should be our motivation to go back and get it right.