M-W-F Bible study: Psalm 101

Happy Friday!
Taking this moment to reflect on the person God wants me to be will hopefully set the tone for the rest of my day. I pray the same for you.
Walk in His blessing, today.
Lili

I have a prayer request, please. A friend of ours had a heart attack last week. He's 11 years out from his by-pass surgery. This last week, they put in 2 stents. His wife, a good friend of mine, is struggling to hold it all together right now. Please pray for strength for their family, in this difficult time. Thank you.


Psalm 101

1A psalm of David. I will sing of your love and justice. I will praise you, LORD, with songs.2I will be careful to live a blameless life -- when will you come to my aid? I will lead a life of integrity in my own home.3I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. I hate all crooked dealings; I will have nothing to do with them.4I will reject perverse ideas and stay away from every evil.5I will not tolerate people who slander their neighbors. I will not endure conceit and pride.6I will keep a protective eye on the godly, so they may dwell with me in safety. Only those who are above reproach will be allowed to serve me.7I will not allow deceivers to serve me, and liars will not be allowed to enter my presence.8My daily task will be to ferret out criminals and free the city of the LORD from their grip.

(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary -- www.christnotes.org)

"Chapter Contents

David's vow and profession of godliness.

In this psalm we have David declaring how he intended to regulate his household, and to govern his kingdom, that he might stop wickedness, and encourage godliness. It is also applicable to private families, and is the householder's psalm. It teaches all that have any power, whether more or less, to use it so as to be a terror to evil-doers, and a praise to them that do well. The chosen subject of the psalm is God's mercy and judgment. The Lord's providences concerning his people are commonly mixed; mercy and judgment. God has set the one over against the other, both to do good, like showers and sunshine. When, in his providence, he exercises us with the mixture of mercy and judgment, we must make suitable acknowledgments to him for both. Family mercies and family afflictions are both calls to family religion. Those who are in public stations are not thereby excused from care in governing their families; they are the more concerned to set a good example of ruling their own houses well. Whenever a man has a house of his own, let him seek to have God to dwell with him; and those may expect his presence, who walk with a perfect heart, in a perfect way. David resolves to practise no evil himself. He further resolves not to keep bad servants, nor to employ those about him that are wicked. He will not admit them into his family, lest they spread the infection of sin. A froward heart, one that delights to be cross and perverse, is not fit for society, the bond of which is Christian love. Nor will he countenance slanderers, those who take pleasure in wounding their neighbour's reputation. Also, God resists the proud, and false, deceitful people, who scruple not to tell lies, or commit frauds. Let every one be zealous and diligent to reform his own heart and ways, and to do this early; ever mindful of that future, most awful morning, when the King of righteousness shall cut off all wicked doers from the heavenly Jerusalem."