The Making of Spiritual Warrior - Week 3 - Monday Morning Devotions
Good morning and welcome to Daily Chapel - today's focus is on 'The Making of a Spiritual Warrior.' The training to make someone into a Spiritual Warrior is not a process of self-development. Martin Luther envisaged the spiritual life in passive terms as a process of reception from the Triune God. In it self-sufficient individuals became beggars before God.
Please allow God's Spirit to speak to you as you listen to Psalm 119, beginning with verse 97.
Psalm 119 ם Mem
97 Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.
98 Your commands make me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me.
99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
100 I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.
101 I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.
102 I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.
103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
The individual who comes humbly to receive the gifts that are offered through the Sacred Word of God are truly blessed. The Psalmist writes 'how sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!' Yes, to the penitent who seek God's mercy and long to serve their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - God's words, God's law, God's statutes, God's precepts are sweet!
To the Spiritual Warrior, he or she is wiser than their enemies, have more insight than the worldly teachers, have more understanding than the elders, and strive to walk down the straight and narrow path based on God's Sacred words.
Each and every Sunday you are invited to meditate on the Sacred Words of God so that you will be better prepared to thrive in our fallen world. You will be fed with words of truth in order to defend yourself from the onslaught of the devil, the world, and your own sinful nature. Each and every day you are encouraged to offer up your prayers and to be fed on God's life-saving, life-changing world as taught by God's Spirit.
Please pray with me: Blessed Lord, You have caused all Holy Scriptures to be written for our learning. Grant that we may so hear them, read, mark, learn, and take them to heart that, by the patience and comfort of Your holy Word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.