“How can a young man keep his way pure?
By keeping it according to Your word.
With all my heart I have sought You;
Do not let me wander from Your commandments.
Your word I have treasured in my heart,
That I may not sin against You.
Blessed are You, O Lord;
Teach me Your statutes.” (Psalm 119:9-12 NASB1995)
How can any of us who believe in Jesus keep our way pure? By keeping it according to God’s Word, i.e. by putting sin to death daily, by the Spirit, and by making obedience to God and to his commands how we live, in practice, in the power of God. We have to be those who are committed to holy living and to not playing with sin even one little bit. We must keep our minds pure and keep our eyes from what is morally corrupt, seductive, and enticing. For if the sinful flesh is what we feed into our minds, it will impact how we live.
But this all begins with the kind of faith with which we believed in Jesus. If the faith we profess is of the flesh of humans, designed by humans, and not by God, and not according to his Word, taught in the correct context, then that faith will continue to produce what is of the flesh, and not what is of God. For the most popular gospel message spreading across the USA today is not of God, but it is an altered and diluted version of the true gospel, for it does not require that we die to sin and that we obey God, in practice.
So, if we want to keep our way pure, we need to first of all make certain that the gospel message we are believing is the one consistently taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, in the correct biblical context. And they taught that faith in Jesus Christ, which is persuaded of God, and which is gifted to us by God, and which is not of our own doing, will result in us putting sin to death with Christ and now walking in obedience to his commands, in holy living, by his grace, in his power, and not of the flesh.
And then we need to let the Lord radically alter our lifestyles so that we no longer do what is contrary to the Scriptures and to God’s New Covenant commands, but now our desire is for the Lord, to do his will. And we need to pray for wisdom as to what we should and should not be taking into our ears, our minds, and our eyes. And as we continue to mature in our walks of faith in the Lord, he may reveal more and more of what he wants out of our lives and what he wants in our lives, instead, as he molds us to his likeness.
We also need to be students of the Scriptures who are studying them in their appropriate context, and not out of context, so that we are getting the correct biblical understanding of what they are teaching us. Far too many people today professing faith in Jesus are putting their dependency in other humans to teach them what is truth. But we have far too many “wolves in sheep’s clothing” among us who are twisting the Scriptures, and who are deliberately teaching them out of their correct context. So be discerning!
So, if we really want to know and to understand what the Scriptures teach, especially what is taught by Jesus and by his New Testament apostles, we need to read the Scriptures book by book, and chapter by chapter, and verse by verse, and then do it again, and again. And if we are earnest in learning what is truth, the Holy Spirit will reveal to us what is truth, and he will show us, too, where we have been believing any lies so that we will now reject the lies we once believed, and so we will now embrace the truth of God’s Word.
For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
For Our Nation
Professionally recorded in Nashville, TN
Via Gerry Peters, music producer and arranger
An Original Work / September 11, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Bombs are bursting. Night is falling.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Trust Him with your life today.
Make Him your Lord and your Savior.
Turn from your sin. Follow Jesus.
He will forgive you of your sin;
Cleanse your heart, made new within.
Men betraying: Our trust fraying.
On our knees to God we’re praying,
Seeking God to give us answers
That are only found in Him.
God is sovereign over all things.
Nothing from His mind escaping.
He has all things under His command,
And will work all for good.
Jesus Christ is gently calling
You to follow Him in all ways.
Men deceiving: We’re believing
In our Lord, and interceding
For our nation and its people
To obey their God today.
He is our hope for our future.
For our wounds He offers suture.
He is all we need for this life.
Trust Him with your life today.
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Teach Me Your Statutes
An Original Work / July 18, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
