Doing right. Thinking right. Acting right. Talking right. Choosing right.

All those make a lot of sense to me, especially when I read a verse like this one:

“For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly” (Psalm 84:11).

Why turn away (foolishly, I might add) from such a promise?

When life is cold and dark and practically lifeless, a sun is a wonderful thing to have.

When all manner of arrows, darts, lances, and swords are flying about, a shield is indispensable.

And when God Himself is that sun and that shield — well, why be so foolish as to not walk in the right way?!

That’s how I’ll live . . . by the grace He promises in this very verse.

God calls me.

He wants me to seek after Him.

He yearns for me to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness.

What will it take for me to answer Him, to seek Him?

This?

“Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD” (Psalm 83:16).

Too often it takes shame or loss or desperation to turn me away from seeking after other things.

If I seek Him with my whole heart, I will find Him.

So let me seek Him diligently, often, and early.

Even when things are going well.

Especially when things are going well.

And when they’re not.

All the time and anytime, in other words.