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Monday... So let's keep at it.


Psalm 119:7-8 (NLT), "As I learn your righteous regulations, I will thank you by living as I should! I will obey your degrees. Please don't give up on me!"

Monday... So let's keep at it.

Here we are at the end of another year, ready to live a new one but also looking back. So how does it look?

The Psalmist writes in 119:7-8a, "As I learn your righteous regulations, I will thank you by living as I should! I will obey your degrees." But he doesn't stop there. In 8b he says, "Please don't give up on me!" And it can be so easy to feel that way as they look back on 2025 and that is maybe where we start as we look ahead to 2026.

Now the reality is, he won't give up on us. Even if we get off the path he still will come after us. But it is so easy for us to want that from God but do it with other people. Are there people in our life that we have given up on in 2025?

I also read this morning something in 1 John 4:20-21 that is so important for us to see. John wrote, "If someone says, 'I love God,' but hates a fellow believer, that person is a liar, for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we cannot see? And he has given us this command: Those who love God must also love their fellow believers." So we also must not give up on them.

Verses 16-17 says, "We know how much God love us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we live like Jesus here in the world."

Back to Psalm 119:9-10 and it says, "How can a young person live a clean life? By carefully reading the map of your Word. I'm single-minded in pursuit of you; don't let me miss the road signs you've posted." And that is so important for us to see. Verse 11 in the NLT says, "I have hidden your word in my heart; that I might not sin against you."


He will allow people into our lives where it would be easy for us to give up on them like it would be easy for him to give up on us. Those can be road signs that God puts into our lives to see if we will do what he has commanded us to do. Yes, none of us are perfect and that is what love is all about.

The key is, he will not give up on us but he doesn't want us to give up on them. So let's keep at it. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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