So, I was reading my Bible last night, and I stumbled upon Psalm 18. This Psalm is awesome, because it talks about God rescuing us from our enemies, giving us strength for victory, and the like. That's something I definitely needed to hear, since I've been having a pretty busy, stressful, and challenging time at work lately. For those of you who don't know me, I'm currently in flight school for the Navy in southern Texas, and have been working 12+ hour days pretty regularly. But I digress.
Anyways, one verse particularly stuck out in my mind as I was reading this Psalm. "So the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight." (Psalm 18:24). What really struck me about this verse, is that the reason God protected David, the reason God gave his strength and victory, was because David was righteous.
And I thought righteousness was only good for keeping you from getting into trouble.
Nope, apparently a good reason to be righteous is so that when people are trying to chase you down and kill you, God can step in and give you an unnatural power to rout your enemies. Or, at least, that's what he did for David.
Side note:
I don't know about you guys, but I have a hard time being righteous. It's a good thing God can make us righteous by faith, because it's a lot easier for me to have faith than to be perfect! I find that when I'm looking to do what God wants, he's able to make it happen in spite of me and my, well, how do we say, "humanity".
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