Quick Look: Psalm 86:11

Quickly, Psalm 86:11 (TM) in four parts:

• Teach me Your way
  
• I will walk in Your truth
• Unite my heart
• to fear Your name

Teach me Your way

• I'm open to what You want to teach me, Lord
• You might use multiple sources - scripture, prayer, people, circumstance

I will walk in Your truth

• this phrase supplies the why of the teaching
• it's like "Teach me Your way so that I can walk in Your truth"
• I think it also shows a willingness and an intention to do that

Unite my heart

• NIV says "...Give me an undivided heart..."
• the undivided heart, like the single eye of the KJV Mt 6:22, gives us a crucial ability, as seen in...

To fear Your name

• ... the ability to correctly regard the Lord
• fear - awe, proper respect
• look at what this did for Isaiah in Is 6 (TM) - it pulled things into sharp focus
• this is the result of grace, not really achievable on our own, and it puts our heads and hearts into a place able to have the relationship desired by the Lord
  

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