Psalm 119:97-120

“I have restrained my feet from every evil way, that I may keep Your word.” (Psalm 119:101, NKJV)

As a Christian, there are certain places we just don’t need to go. I understand that we should reach out to people who don’t know Christ. But it is easy for us to overestimate our strength and underestimate our weakness in the face of temptation. The psalmist understood the importance of meditating on the Word. Earlier he said that he hid God’s Word in his heart so that he would not sin (v. 11). This is good, but sometimes we need to exercise some good, old fashioned common sense. If we are tempted to go someplace we shouldn’t (either physically or in our minds) then we must restrain our feet (or other members of our body) from every evil way and even from those things that are close to the evil way.

The apostle Paul put it like this:

“Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21–22, NKJV)

Some people may need to restrain their feet. Others may need to restrain their tongue. Others may need to turn their eyes away. We all have our weak zones. Like Superman, we all have our Kryptonite.

Rather than turning our feet toward things that will stumble us, why not ask God today to direct our feet in the way of life?