Let God Directs your path

Psalm 8

Lead me in the right path, O Lord,
or my enemies will conquer me.
Make your way plain for me to follow.

This is my prayer, God, “Lead me in the right path!” Your path is clearly laid out in Scripture, how I should live, what values I should place as gems in my heart, and how to decide and live out the different decisions I must face daily: how I should treat my friends, how I should respond to misunderstanding or insults, how I should respond to rejection, how I should respond to people who say mean things or treat me poorly; how I should receive truth from people rather than fighting them; how I should lay down my rights to serve others; how I should use my time and energies not to indulge my desires but to build Your church; how I should treasure people over things; and that I can have the spiritual eyes to see the responsibilities given me not as burden or mere duty, but as tremendous privilege and joy.

Lord, I ask you to lead me in the right path because the consequence of not living according to Your Word is that “my enemies will conquer me.” The enemies are my sinful nature, my old desires, my natural comfort-seeking, entertainment-seeking, self-preserving heart. This is the old self which I am daily trying to put off (cf. Eph 4). Lord, please lead me in the right path, and let your way be plain to me to follow. Help me to be well-grounded in Scripture, because Your word makes it plain, makes it clear for me how to follow You no matter what decisions or struggles I may have (cf. Psalm 119:105, Psalm 19:7-8).