Choosing Holiness

1 Kings 4-5; 2 Chronicles 2; Psalms 101; 2 Thessalonians 3 

“I will sing of your love and justice; to you, O Lord, I will sing praise. I will be careful to lead a blameless life - when will you come to me? I will walk in my house with blameless heart. I will set before my eyes no vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me. Men of perverse heart shall be far from me; I will have nothing to do with evil.”

Psalm 101:1-4

David valued the presence of the Lord in his life and in his home more than his personal pleasure or popularity. However, he knew God was not manipulated or influenced by religious sacrifice. God didn’t come to David on a schedule. It was David who pursued the presence of the Lord and pursued the disciplines of purity, worship, and humility. David understood that we become like the people we spend time with. That is why his worship/prayerbook journals the qualities he chose to avoid including faithless, vile, perverse, and evil people.

Does our entertainment invite those kinds of people into our home?

“Lord God, forgive me for grieving you by inviting into our home, entertainment that is opposed to your kingdom. You are holy and I choose holiness, for your glory.”