Staying on Track

UV 972/10,000 Staying On Track The law of His God is in his heart. His feet do not slip. Psalm 37 v 31 In the Old Covenant relationship, God wrote His law on stone and gave it to Moses to carry it to the people of Israel and to teach it to them. The people broke the law even before the stone tablets with the commandments were given to them. The stone tablets fell from the hands of the distraught Moses and broke symbolically. But under the new covenant relationship, the Lord writes His law or His Word in our hearts. His Word remains in us all the time and like goads or spurs provoke or stimulate a horse, it stimulates us. His Word teaches us all the time as we delight in meditating on it. His Word gives us wisdom, power and guidance. Just as our blood carry oxygen and nutrition to all parts of our physical body, when we memorise and meditate on His Word, verse by verse, it will carry spiritual oxygen and nutrition to all parts of our being. When we break the law of God written on our hearts, our hearts are broken and not just stone tablets. When we keep the law of God, our hearts and lives are blessed and we become a blessing in turn to others. As we memorise, meditate and obey the Word, our feet will not slip or stumble. We will be kept from the errors of passion, the errors of judgement and the kind of mistakes that destroy many people who live ignorant lives. As we intake the Word on a constant basis, it produces joy, security and peace in our deepest being. The steps of the righteous man are ordered by the Lord. As we trust in the Word of the Lord and delight in doing His will, He directs our paths. The Word of God lays out the tracks on which we should run, not turning to the left or to the right. The physical universe is governed by certain physical laws like the law of gravity that science has discovered and taught. But the laws of the spiritual and moral universe are contained only in the Word. When the physical laws are respected and obeyed, we live in safety and progress. Whey they are disobeyed, there are accidents, hazards and disasters. When the laws of the spiritual and moral universe as contained in each unique verse or uni-verse are learnt, trusted and obeyed, we are greatly blessed and our souls prosper. The way to use the uni-verse meditation to bless our lives fully is to remember the verse verbatim including the exact reference, to run it in our mind from time to time through the day, if possible at least once every hour, to try to understand the meaning and nuances of every word, to claim it in prayer from time to time and at the end of the day thanking the Lord for writing His precious Word on our hearts and for releasing His power, grace and blessings through it into our lives. During the day we should examine if we have obeyed the particular uni-verse for the day. We can share the uni-verse with some people we interact with in the course of the day and bless the rest of the universe with it. As a result of these exercises of reading, memorising, meditating, praying, claiming, sharing and obeying, we are in tune with God, with our inner self, with the universe around, with others around. The next day we should remember the previous day’s uni-verse before starting afresh. Gradually, we will be transformed degree by degree, verse by verse into His very likeness, the Anointed of God, the Chosen One, the Holy One of Israel, Jesus Christ. Prateep V Philip