The Way Everlasting

Psa 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Psa 139:24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.



Search me, O God
Know my heart.
Try me.
Know my thoughts.
See if there be ANY wicked way in me.
Lead me in the way everlasting.


This is my prayer! This is my plea!


Search me God!


If there is any wickedness in me- lead me in the way everlasting!!!


The way everlasting.


We might have wickedness in us, in fact it's almost guaranteed that we do have wickedness in us. If we didn't have any wickedness we'd be claiming perfection and while the Bible says in- Mat 5:48 'Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.' The only way to that perfection is through our Savior- not through out own righteousness, not through any perfection in ourselves. The wickedness in us must be conquered as we are led in the way everlasting; that 'WAY' everlasting is our being conquerors through Christ our Lord and Savior.


The way everlasting--


Joh 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.


1Jn 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
1Jn 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
1Jn 4:17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
1Jn 4:18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
1Jn 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
1Jn 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
1Jn 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.


There is so much hatred in the world.
There is so much self-serving.
We use the word hate and apply it to the infamously vile.
I still hear the voice of my mother saying- 'Never say you hate someone. Hate is a terrible word.'
My mother was right, hate is a terrible word and our world is full of haters. That's become a common word now, used as slang. The saying- 'They're just haters.' Meaning there are people who are jealous, people who don't like what you want to be acceptable. You're a hater if you disagree with someone's opinion, you're a hater if you say something contrary, you're a hater if you don't like someone.


We equate hating with not being loving, right? And as long as we DISLIKE and don't truly HATE, we don't classify ourselves among those who beyond the slang meaning, really hate other people. We pride ourselves on being able to say we DON'T hate anyone. A quick pat on our backs for our being able to keep from hating others feels good, doesn't it? Yet even as we take pride in our non-hating selves we are guilty of self-serving in that pride. And there is more hatred in selfishness than anywhere else. Sin entered Satan through selfishness.


Count the 'I's' in these verses--


Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
Isa 14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
Isa 14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isa 14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.


Five 'I's', FIVE!


Satan in pure selfishness wanted to ascend into heaven, he wanted to exalt his throne above the angels of God, he wanted to sit on God's mountain, he wanted to be above the clouds, and MOST selfishly- Satan wanted to be like the MOST HIGH!


Satan's self serving, Satan's selfishness brought sin into existence. Not being loving, but hating, is pure selfishness.


Pure wickedness - is pure selfishness.


Christ's way, the WAY everlasting is pure unselfishness!


God is love and over and over it is emphasized that love is selfless and we too need to have that selfless love- by the grace and mercy of our Savior may we follow the WAY everlasting and become selfless as He is selfless.


Amen!