Send out your light and your truth;

let them lead me;

let them bring me to your holy hill

and to your dwelling!

Then I will go to the altar of God,

to God my exceeding joy,

Psalm 43:3-4a

Lord, who may abide in Your tabernacle?

Who may dwell in Your holy hill?

He who walks uprightly,

And works righteousness,

And speaks the truth in his heart;

Psalm 15:1-2

Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?

Or who may stand in His holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,

Nor sworn deceitfully.

Psalm 24:3-4

A month ago I wrote on those last verses above. We seem to still be on the same theme. I read Psalm 43 this morning. It talks about going to that Holy Hill. But, they are asking to be led there. They are not there yet. If you aren’t dwelling in the secret place of His presence, then you can ask to be led there. He wants to bring you to Himself.

The prayer is that God would send His light and truth to lead them. Jesus, of course, is the light and the truth. So is God’s word. We walk in the light of Christ, asking Him to shine His light to expose any harmful way in us, and we read the Bible and search our lives in light of the Scriptures. We ask the Holy Spirit to reveal to us truth in the Scriptures, to make it alive to us where we need the sword to cut away the flesh.

The outcome is being, dwelling, never moving from God’s presence. That’s where exceeding joy is found, in His presence. 

…They devoted themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger…and He removed them from His presence. 

2 Kings 17:17-18 BSB

I published a book on sin last week and it’s main point you could say is that sin separates us from God, so these verses stuck out to me. Devoting themselves to evil was also a very dramatic way to say it. 

It seems to beg the question: What are you devoted to?

Maybe we need to define devotion. I searched up this definition. 

Devotion: love, loyalty, or enthusiasm for a person, activity, or cause

By this definition, would you say you are devoted to God? They were devoted to evil. Could we have that devotion for righteousness?

It’s easy to picture sports fans showing their love, loyalty, and enthusiasm. When you aren’t in church, does your love, loyalty, and enthusiasm for the things of God show? Does it show early in the morning? Does it show at the end of a long day?

How are you spreading enthusiasm for God and His righteousnses?

May you receive the gift of faith to be saved by grace. Ephesians 2:8

May you seek Him with all your heart until you find Him and cling to Him. Jeremiah 29:13, Joshua 23:8

May you know the love of God that never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:8

May you increase in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men. Luke 2:52

May you be comforted, gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding of the mystery of God,
both of the Father and of Christ. Colossians 2:2

May you have a heart of compassion, kindness, gentleness, humility, perseverance, and forgiveness. And
above all to walk in love. Colossians 3:12-14

May you not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you
may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2

May the words of your mouth and the meditation of your heart be acceptable in God’s sight. Psalm
19:14

May God teach you His way so that you will walk in God’s truth. May God make your heart undivided to
fear His holy name. May you praise the Lord your God with your whole heart. May you glorify the name
of Jesus forever more. May you know God’s great mercy, which delivers your soul from hell. Psalm
86:11-13

May you love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with
all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself. Luke 10:27

May you live to declare the works of the Lord. Psalm 118:17

May you devote yourself to prayer with thanksgiving. Colossians 4:2

May you take refuge in God and rejoice. May you shout for joy because God is your defense. May your
love for God always make you joyful. Psalm 5:11

May the Lord keep you from all evil. May God keep your soul. The Lord will guard your going out and
your coming in, from this time forward, and forever more. Psalm 121:7-8

May you love like Jesus and patient and kind. May you never envy or brag, or be proud. May you not
behave inappropriately or seek its own way. May you not be provoked or keep a record of wrong. May
you never rejoice in unrighteousness, but may you rejoice with the truth. May you bear all things,
believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. Ephesians 5:1-2, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7

May you know the love of God that never fails and trust it always. 1 Corinthians 13:8, Psalm 13:5

May God give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, being enlightened, that
you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in
the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe. Ephesians 1:17-19

May the peace of God rule in their hearts. Colossians 3:5

May God grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power
through his Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that
you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be strengthened to comprehend with all the saints what is
the width and length and height and depth, and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that
you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:16-19

May your love abound more and more in knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the
things that are excellent, that you may be pure and blameless. Philippians 1:9-10

The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine on you, and be gracious to you. The
Lord lift up his face toward you, and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26

No weapon formed against you shall prosper.…” Isaiah 54:17

May you be led in the everlasting way. Psalm 139:24

May God teach you to do His will. Psalm 143:10

May you keep your eyes on Jesus. Hebrews 12:2

May you keep your mind be Jesus and trust Him in all things. Isaiah 26:3

May you give everything to God in prayer, always thanking Him for all things, and receive from Him
peace that will guard your heart and mind. Philippians 4:6-7

May you set your mind on the things of the Spirit and receive life and peace from the Lord. Romans 8:5-
6

May you know the rest of salvation and may quietness and trusting confidence be your strength. Isaiah
30:15

May you know the joy of His presence and the pleasures of being at His right hand. Psalm 16:11

May you be cleansed and kept pure to be used as a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the
master’s use, prepared for every good work. 2 Timothy 2:21

May you honor your father and mother and receive the promise. Exodus 20:12

(verses adapted from the World English Bible)