How can a young man keep his way pure
By guarding it according to your Word
With all my heart I have sought you
Do not let me wander from your commandments.
Young men will chose a way and are influenced in it by many things. But keeping it pure is usually not the highest priority. In fact the way of most young men is really intended to go try every way pure or not regardless of consequence. When you start your journey off course, even a little, it takes that much longer to get back on track after a while. But the psalmist wants to know about a pure way, an uncorrupted way, an untainted way, a way of substance.
Where does the desire of purity come from? "The one who has this hope purifies himself as He is pure"
Purity of my way can only come by measuring, mapping and defining my way by Gods word. Only then will it be kept in the right way. Keeping something pure requires attention to it s situations, surroundings, and its future. The word of God can show me about situations that I ought to be in to stay pure, that i should avoid to be pure, and to show me what influences are beneficial for purity and those which are not. If my way is in accord with his Word, it will stay pure. Even if i am young even if temptations and trials come.
What power should i need to keep my way pure according to His word? ~ Hebrews says having my eyes fixed on the author and perfecter of my faith, That i call on the indwelling spirit that envies intensely for the Glory of God in me and I be sensitive to Him and not willfully grieving Him.
That i depend on all the means of grace that the Word of God offers, To not give up meeting together as some are in the habit of doing. That i pray without ceasing. That i let the Word of God dwell in me richly. Oh that i would have done this as a young man. Oh that i could learn to do it with my own sons.
The pure heart of (i can't read my writing) seeks God in and of it's entirety. It is undivided, not seeking other things. A new heart has been given and it's sole desire is seeking God, and our Lord has promised. Those who seek shall find and echos the prophet that calls us to seek the Lord while he may be found. Call upon him while he is near. In seeking, his prayer is not to wander. Lord we are prone to wander, For though our hearts be undivided, our strength is sometimes low and our resolve is weak and we stumble. Wandering can be an unthinking unintentional thing. And it seems sometimes we don't mean to wander but our hearts are drawn away and enticed. Wandering can be a small beginning, to going totally off the path and in my heart and mind small changes in thinking get multiplied the further i get along, and if I am not always making course corrections. I will soon find myself wandering far away.
But the restraint comes from the past, and from the growing conviction of whole hearted searching over time to get back on course. The psalmists plea recognises that it is the Lords keeping that makes it possible, and echose Jesus teaching on prayer "Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil."
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