Daily Huddle - Wed Dec 16, 2020 Reveals

Love you all, praying for you… 
 
Have you ever noticed when people talk, how revealing it is?  What people say reveals what’s in their heart, what and how they think, and what influences them, what they feed on.  I love hearing experts talk.  Not pseudo experts – those who talk but don’t do… who teach others but have never done it themselves.  But true experts – Super Bowl Champions, Company Builders, Parents whose kids aren’t little terrors, but are respectful, diligent, successful – those who aren’t experts in theory, but experts in practice.  I love it when they talk.  That’s part of why God wrote the Bible – His Word inspired in the heart and pen and personal experience of authors who heard His voice, and followed His ways.  David is one of them.  Psalms 17:4-5 – As for the deeds of men, by the Word of your lips, I have kept myself from the ways of the destroyer.  My steps have held to your paths, my feet have not slipped.  David is talking about slipping, how easy it is to find your feet on unsteady ground, precarious.  He’s talking about, how easy it is to lose everything you’ve worked for, to lose your way, and lose your life.  And he gives the secret – don’t lose your mind, or you’ll lose your way.  Transform your mind, keep it focused so you don’t lose it.  He said regarding the things that men do…  By God’s Word, the Word that comes out of the mouth of the Almighty in wisdom and power, in truth and authority, I have kept myself (saved myself) from walking in the ways (the paths, the habits, the mindset and thought patterns) of the destroyer (the robber, the one who tears down and brings things to ruin – the ways of sin).  David is that Super Bowl Champion – that Hall of Famer – that when interviewed can’t help but reveal his secrets – that formed the way he thinks, that set the patterns of his mental and physical preparation.  What Vince Lombardi said, “It’s not the will to win, it’s the will to prepare to win.”  David reveals his mindset, he gives his secret, his preparation…  It’s simply God’s Word – Always reading it, always saying it, always doing it, quickly obeying it – that’s how I have kept myself from slipping and falling.  Reading it, Thinking it, Saying it, Obeying it – that is how have held to God’s ways and His paths.  That’s how I got to be successful, and stayed successful over time.  The difference between the one hit wonder, and the perennial chart-topper, the difference between one ring, and six rings.   It’s like the great golfers of history.  Anyone can shoot a great round, it’s those who are consistent every round, the ones who always make the cut, they limit their bad shots, they become consistent with good shots, so their great shots give them a chance to win tournaments, it’s how they stay at the top – over time.  Praying that you will know David’s secret, that PRISM will be your lifelong habit.  Those five things you can do in God’s Word every day, day after day, year after year, so your feet don’t slip, they rise.  So God can bring you from grace to grace, and glory to glory…  So what He revealed in His word – becomes what you reveal in your life.  
 
Love you all,
dad