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.