Psalm 101:1-4 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.
No vile thing and no evil, these are the things that we need to model for our children. How else will they know what evil is? What we watch on TV, listen to in music, books we read, and movies we see; even if we don't allow them to see, listen, read, or watch, if they know that we have, then what have we accomplished? We have just taught them that is it OK to wait until they are older and can make decisions for themselves. We, as adults, have to make conscience effort to "set before my eyes no vile thing" to set the example even if our kids our not around and talk about such choices with our kids to instruct them in not making evil choices. But we also make these choices because it is pleasing to God for ourselves. It is how we live the blameless life. Our behavior is another way that we praise our God and shine the light or Jesus for others.
Lord, help me to lead the blameless life to be able to make the correct choices to keep evil away. I want to be the light for others as well as for my daughter. In Jesus' Name Amen
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