This
is one of my favourite bible verses. It’s also one of the best prayers therein.
I was introduced to this prayer by my grade six teacher. He used to make us say
it every morning and at that time it didn’t mean much. I recited it over and
over again but it ended at just reciting. As I grew older and went to high
school I forgot all about it. Then after I got saved I found myself looking for
it along with many other verses that I had memorised when I was younger. It
meant a lot to me that I remembered. I still don’t really know why.
Recently
I was walking in town and I started saying the prayer in my head. As I said the
words I started analyzing them. This prayer is all about asking God to take
over our minds and our tongues the most powerful parts of our beings. These two
can make or break us and those around us. Our thoughts often become words and
actions. But that’s a story for another day.
What
really caught my attention was the word “acceptable”
which, according to Google, means
adequate or satisfactory. I think the Psalmist chose that word
intentionally. If we work towards being acceptable it relieves the pressure of trying
to be the best. We just try to be good enough. Yet at the end of the day while
we’re busy trying to be good enough for God we actually present to him our
best. We are becoming perfect like Him without even knowing it. He made us in
His image- perfect like Him. Then sin just had to come and ruin it for us and
make us all dirty.
You
might be wondering why I’m encouraging us to aim for middle ground. Actually I’m
not and neither was the psalmist. It was a trick I think. We think “All I need
to do is be satisfactory” and as we read the word and do like it says we are
moulded into the people God has ordained us to be. We are made perfect in his
eyes. And I strongly believe that his definition of perfect differs from ours. He
is perfection and he knows its a tall order for you and me. He knows temptation
is all around us and sometimes we fall into its trap. But once we go back to
His throne and confess and repent, He accepts us and therefore we are made
perfect.
So
according to this verse acceptable and perfect mean the same thing. Because whenever
God takes over He makes us nothing less than perfect
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