Guard Your Soul

When was the last time you let God really grab hold of you---Just surrendering all your time just for Him and Him alone listening for His voice?  Our Savior needed time to spend with His Father, and made an effort to do so.

"Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed"  (Luke 5:16)

Jesus spent time regularly; praying and listening to God.  Mark says, "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where He prayed.

If Jesus, the Son of God, needed to make time to listen and pray, wouldn't it be wise for you to do likewise--and therefore, guarding your soul?  I believe we need more time in the early morning lonely places, to be with Jesus--praying in the Spirit and listening.

I believe this is wise because, "In the paths of the wicked lie thorns and snares, but he who guards his soul stays far from them", (Proverbs 22:5).  Staying far from the desires of this world, means staying close to Jesus.

Just listen to the Psalmist--"Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of simmers or sit in the seat of mockers.  But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His word he meditates day and night", (Psalm 1:1-2).  Once again this will "guard your soul".  "For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous". (Psalm 1:6).

Paul must have "because he knew Jesus, and was convinced that He is able to guard what he had entrusted to Him in that day".  (2Timothy 1:12) paraphrased.  Paul let Jesus---

"Guard His Soul"

because he put his trust in God alone.  It would be wise to rise up before daylight, find your lonely place, and praise His great name.

Max Lucado   Psalm 1     Proverbs 22    Natalie Grant   Aaron Shust    2 Timothy 1    Isaiah 59