The word for this week is "pursue". We'll be looking at Psalm 34:14:
14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it. KJV
This is the Greek word "radaph". Strong's Concordance says: to run after. Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon adds: to chase, to attend closely to, to aim to secure. In this verse we are pursuing peace. Notice that the very first thing we are to do as we pursue this peace is to depart, or to turn away from, evil. Then we are to do good. Departing from evil keeps us in God's protection, provision and safety. Doing good towards someone else sows good seeds into someone else's life that will be multiplied back to us in God's timing. Then the very next action in pursing here is to seek, which Strong's Concordance says means: to search out by any method; and Brown-Driver-Briggs Lexicon says: to require. The thing that we are to pursue so diligently is "peace". This is "shalom", which we have looked at before and means, according to Strong's Concordance: safe, well, happy, friendly, welfare, health, prosperity. I think that sounds like something definitely worth the effort of pursuing (running after, chasing, attending to, and aiming to secure)! Here is Psalm 34:14 from the Amplified Bible:
14 Depart from evil and do good; seek, inquire for, and crave peace and pursue (go after) it! AMP
I am sure that you are already operating in these principles of seeking and pursuing every day at work in order to be as successful as you have been. When we apply these principles in the quest to walk in the fullness of what God has provided for us in our new, and better, Covenant (Hebrews 8:6), the people we associate with will definitely see something in us that they may not see in any other person in their lives! You are doing a wonderful job of showing HIM off! I am praying for great favor, anointing, provision and opportunity for you to continue to show Him off to everyone watching! Here is a song from Hillsong Young and Free called, of course, "Pursue"!
Love and Shalom from the Swoveys!
