The Hebrew word for paths literally means ‘wheel-tracks’. David is absolutely determined to stay on God’s tracks. In order to stay on God’s tracks you need to watch: Your heart (what you think about) ‘Though you probe my heart, though you examine me at night and test me, you will find that I have planned no evil’ (v.3a). Your words (what you say) ‘I have resolved that my mouth will not sin’ (v.3c). Your feet (the places that you go) ‘My feet have not slipped’ (v.5b).
Job was a man who helped people stay on God’s tracks: ‘Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees’ (4:3–4).
Your task is not just to stay on track yourself but, like Job, to help others as well by your actions and by your words.
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