STEP TEN
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
[FONT=TimesNewRoman,Italic]Psalm 101:2-4 (N.I.V.)
[FONT=TimesNewRoman,Italic]I will be careful to lead a blameless life- when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with a blameless heart. I will set before my eyes no vile thing.[/FONT]
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Because of the Lord’s constancy in his love and in his administration of justice the psalmist breaks forth into
thanksgiving. He is motivated to lead a blameless life before God! His loyalty is to the Lord and not to the ways of this
world. If we are careful to establish and maintain this honest and humble frame of mind God will respond to us with his priceless gift of mercy! ‘I will walk in my house,’ would suggest that our concentration should be centered mainly on what ‘we’ are doing. This in turn should provide us a better opportunity to recognize our wrongs! In doing so it will be much easier to take immediate action to allow God to correct ourselves. I will set before my eyes no vile thing, would probably suggest that once we recognize and admit a wrong in our thinking or actions we immediately ask God to remove it. And once we do so, we will be much less likely to affect those around us in our former negative fashion. Just as important is the fact that the more we concentrate on ‘our own inventory,’ the less time we will have to concentrate on some other persons. "This in itself can save us untold grief."
