Set A Watch O Lord Psalm 141:3 “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips”.

 

 As humans we tend to gravitate toward gossip, rumors, dishonesty, injurious and unjust things. Immoral, and unclean. The bad and ugly. Even when you try to display the characteristics God says, there is just a little something in all of us that wants to hear all the above, just so we can be in the know. Even if we don’t say anything or add anything to the gossip, rumors, unjust things, we just want to KNOW them. Some things we need to guard against hearing. Some situations we should run from. Don’t let them grab a hold of you. Don’t let them enter into your hearing and heart. We are bothered by some things because we let our spirits and hearts become garbage pails, a dumping ground. We say too much and hear too much garbage. And then wonder why we are depressed, feeling oppressed, and cast down. They may leave a mark on your heart and or your spirit. It weighs you down unnecessarily. They might become a yoke of bondage whereby you might become ensnared. Some things you just don’t need to hear. Some places you don’t need to go. Some things you don’t need to say.

 

Psalm 141:3-4 – says “Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.”

 

Paul says in the book of Philippians, “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

 

Let’s try to practice the things that God says will give us joy and peace this coming week.