Read it! Psalm 101
The perverse of heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with what is evil.
(vs. 4)
Think it through
This past Mother’s Day our pastor (Ken Murphy at Cypress) gave a great sermon from Judges 4 about, among other things, a woman named Jael. Just as a refresher, Jael was the gal who used a hammer to drive a tent peg through the head of a Canaanite military commander. She hammered so forcefully that the peg went into the ground below.
So, that was a fun Mother’s Day story! Truly, Pastor Ken made a fantastic point: sometimes we need to take a sin and kill it. Drive a tent peg through it and be done.
I was strongly reminded of Jael’s story when I read the “I will’s” in Psalm 101: