Following Instructions For Freedom

I will keep on obeying your instructions
    forever and ever.

I will walk in freedom,
    for I have devoted myself to your commandments.

—Psalm 119:14-16 (NLT)

Heavenly Father,

Thank You for the freedom that You make available to me as I carefully obey Your instructions.

Help me always to look at the instructions You give in Your Word as pathways that lead to my freedom—pathways which You have graciously placed before me for my own good.

Help me to see that obedience to Your commandments and instructions does not inhibit me or restrain me, but rather allows me the freedom to become the person that You designed me to be all along—and keeps me from the consequences that come when I willfully or ignorantly disobey You.

Help me to see I can only be free to fulfill Your plan for my life as I commit to know and follow Your instructions now and forever.

Thank You for the freedom that You make available to me as I carefully obey Your instructions.

In the name of Jesus, Amen.