“25 Lord, you are loyal to those who are loyal, and you are good to those who are good. 26 You are pure to those who are pure, but you are against those who are bad. 27 You save the humble, but you bring down those who are proud. 28 Lord, you give light to my lamp. My God brightens the darkness around me. 29 With your help I can attack an army. With God’s help I can jump over a wall.” (Psalm 18:25-29 NCV).
The Lord’s help is with those who sincerely seek His help. Operative word: sincerely. So often I find people who desperately seek God’s help in an effort to get them out of the messes they’ve gotten themselves into through their own rebellion. They look for loyalty from a God they have been consistently disloyal towards and they expect good from God in as expected payment for actions they know were not good in the first place. This Psalm reminds us of the simple principle of you reap what you sow.
If you want to experience God’s loyalty, show yourself loyal to Him–act like a child of the King. If you want to experience God’s good pleasure on your life, live a good life for Him–live as a child of the King. If you what God’s purity, fill you mind with pure thoughts. You get the picture.
How wonderful the promise of God. When our ways are right, the darkness around us becomes light, and God Himself supplies the power to keep our lights burning brightly in testimony to Him. “If God is for us, who can stand against us?” (Romans 8:31 NIV).
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