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Apples of Gold
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“God Withholds No Good Thing from the Upright”
Hello, I’m
Here is a great promise in the Bible.
Psalm 84:11 says that God will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
Walk uprightly? Is that a verse about posture?
In a way, yes. It’s about moral posture.
To walk uprightly means to live uprightly, to be upright.
To be upright, in a literal sense, means to be perpendicular to the ground, to be vertical, straight up and down. A popular use of the word is found in the game of football. When someone kicks a field goal, we say the ball went sailing through the uprights.
When we talk about upright people, we mean people of moral excellence. They are honorable and respectable. They are just and righteous. They are known for their integrity and honesty. They are good and moral and law abiding. An upright man is a man of his word.
This is something we should all shoot for. We should strive to be upright in our character, in our thoughts and our actions both public and private.
God gives us a great motivation to be upright according to that verse in Psalm 84, because God withholds no good thing from those who walk uprightly.
Now listen to this. When we are upright, God’s blessing spills over to others.
Psalm 112 says, “…the generation of the upright shall be blessed.”
Do you want God to bless your city? Then be upright and watch what will happen, because Proverbs
Being upright has many built-in blessings.
Psalm 97:11 says there is “gladness for the upright in heart.”
Psalm 112:4 says, “Even in darkness light dawns for the upright…”
Proverbs 2:7 says there is wisdom and protection for the upright.
Living upright gives you an inside track with God. Proverbs
God delights in the prayers of the upright. (Proverbs 15:8)
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God withholds no good thing from the upright, so that’s the kind of person I want to be, don’t you?
That means being upright in business, and at home. It means being upright when people are watching, and when they aren’t.
The Bible says that God Himself is upright. In fact, Isaiah 26:7 calls Him “thou most upright,” or the Upright One.
And did you know that uprightness is one of God’s favorite things? First Chronicles 29:17 says that God delights in uprightness, He takes pleasure in it.
So let me ask you, are upright?
Are you known for your honesty and integrity, for your goodness and justice? Are you honorable, one who keeps your word, a person of moral excellence, law abiding in every way?
If not, make this your goal. Set your sites on being upright. It is something the Lord will bless in a host of ways, and those blessings will spill over onto everyone around you, to your city and even to your generation.
How can we become upright? It starts by coming to the Lord and surrendering to Him and to His ways.
I’ll close with a great prayer of surrender found in Psalm 143. You can pray it along with me.
It says, “Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God: Thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.”
Comments?
E-mail me: dougapple@wave94.com.
May God bless you today! With Apples of Gold…I’m
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