Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe your righteous ordinances. (NRSV, Psalm 119: 105-106)
As we begin this new year God's word in Bible reading and in prayer can be like a flashlight showing the pathway on a dark night. But as the second verse in this selection helps us see, that flashlight is not showing us how to greedily get our own way and our success at the expense of someone else. That light is guiding us in the pathway of God's righteousness. If the path we're following isn't into righteousness, then the light we're following is like a will 'o the wisp leading us off the path and not the light of God.
Let us pray this week and all year: O God, help me to tell the difference between your true light and the false images that would lead me astray.
Blessings!
Marilyn
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