No matter where we are or what is on our plate for today, one thing is clear: men do not have the heart of God, but they are accountable because He has given us His Word to show us and call them to Himself. The psalmist reminds his audience that there is one thing God requires and desires: The sacrifice God desires is a humble spirit—O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject. It isn’t money or tributes from men but it is the heart of man that God seeks and calls men to repent and humble themselves before Him.
Contrast this to show how fallen men think and how they measure their days. They do not fear death because just like the one man (a movie critic R.Ebert) echoes what Romans chapter one says: “I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. All I require of a religion is that it does not insist that I believe in it.” But Luke 16 tells us a different story, a story of a man of regrets who had all the evidence a man could want or desire and in the end he stood looking across the great divide and asked for one to go and tell his brothers about this truth. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father except through Me.” [Jn 14]
Should we insist on this truth? Where are we today? Do we fear death? Do we have a humble spirit and heart? Do we desire what God desires? What is our heart calling us to say today?
