Psalm 119:93 Live!

I will never forget your precepts,
for by them you have preserved my life.

Psalm 119:93

In the movie Stranger Than Fiction, the plot is driven by Harold Crick's reaction when he discovers that the author who is scripting his life, Karen Eiffel, plans to kill him off.

At the conclusion of the film, she is convinced that instead of killing him off, as she does to the main characters of all her novels, she decides to save his life. The plots twists, changing from the story of his death to the tale of how he lives.

When you were born, God began spinning out the tale of your life. He had great plans for you. He knew you when you were in your mother's womb (Psalm 139:13-16) and began weaving together the person you would become and life you would live.

But God has a co-author in the story of your life. An essential part of the plot-line of your life, and of every other person into whom God has breathed life, is free will.

You have the option, at every plot point, to choose your path. Make your choice according to the guidance of God's precepts. Or choose to live according to some other set of principles. It's your choice.

David learned the hard way that when he remembered to follow God's precepts, his life was not only preserved but energized. As I've noted before, eleven times in Psalm 119 David uses the phrase preserve my life. It always carries the concept of quickening life, as the KJV translates it.

God's precepts renewed and empowered David's reason for living - as often as he remembered them.

Store God's precepts in your mind and in your heart. Recite them, re-read them, share them with others, so that you will never forget them.

And live!