Grant Me Understanding

… grant me understanding, that I may live. — Psalm 119:144.

There is so much we don’t understand, and there is so much that will always be beyond understanding, so why does the psalmist pray for understanding? Perhaps our poet is not asking for the understanding of the complex, but of the understanding of the basic — How should I live?

I can tell you the answer, your preacher can tell you the answer, so can your parents, your best friend, or a total stranger, but it won’t sink in. Only through God’s grace do we learn and understand that the true way to live is by giving over our life to God and letting God take over.

Once we come to that understanding, we live the life God planned for us all along.

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About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.