There is one last thing I want to look at about the Ways of the LORD and our responsibility to them. At the end of David’s life, as he looked back at what God had done, David noted that the ways of the Lord brought victory. You find His words in 2 Samuel 22 and in Psalm 18.
“David sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: ‘The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation. He is my stronghold, my refuge and my savior- from violent men you save me. I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies … For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.’”
The ways of the Lord are made for Victory!
David understood that the reason he was victorious, the reason he was delivered from all his enemies was that he kept the ways of the Lord. And even when he failed, he immediately repented and returned to the Lord.
By keeping the ways of the Lord, David knew firsthand what it meant to have the Lord as his rock, as his fortress and deliverer, as his refuge, shield and horn of salvation, as his stronghold and as his Savior.
We cannot experience that kind of victory unless we also keep the ways of the Lord.
The ways of the Lord are made for Victory!