Psalm 101:6 English Standard Version (ESV) I will look with favor on the faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me; he who walks in the way that is blameless shall minister to me.

In my generation there was a cartoon whose logo captioned “Keep on Trucking”. Those who tried to emulate that walk looked foolish and that was exactly our point. We didn’t care what anyone thought. After a while it becomes very tiresome to walk that way. Becoming an outcast sounds good in the moment but time wears on eeryone and eventually we should recognize how foolish we look.

The point in walking in the Way is found here in Psalm 101. It is to minister to God. Most of us don’t get that right away. Most of us begin this walk in the Way to change our lives without direction. When you are lost, every direction is a way of finding ourselves.

When we walk with Jesus we will discover that on the way, we will find favor with God. Graces are found, blessing are experienced, minds are changed, actions become focused and eventually we discover that serving God is a ministry of building up the bride of Christ. When we minister to them, we minister to Him.

Matthew 25:34-37 English Standard Version

³⁴ Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, ³⁶ I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ ³⁷ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?

The righteous didn’t see it then but the truth is we minister to Him.

Ecclesiastes 7:25 English Standard Version (ESV) I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.

A heart to know the truth in matters should be tempered by wisdom in knowing what to do or not to do when we find what we are looking for.

Schemes are a part of every interaction between all mankind. It does not mean that others are scheming against us, but there are reasons why people are the way they are in the world. In some it might be their nature, in others it may be more.

At the heart of each of is a need which may or may not be consciously understood. Not everyone is introspective. Some of us act out a life that is directed by others. We can see this in today’s society more than ever before. Some buy into an ideal which on the surface sounds right but when carried out to its conclusion is destructive. They are not in control because they have given up rational thought to idealist with hidden schemes that are harmful.

In order to understand if schemes are harmful or not we only need to examine the focal points which are absolutely unyielding. They do not care about anything or anyone who do not agree with their goals.

Nearly all of them have catch phrases that can be chanted in an effort to shout down every rational thought. In my generation it was “hell no we won’t go”. I went, I saw and I know truths that go beyond slogans, rallies and movements. We cannot learn truth by turning a blind eye to it.

Turning a blind eye to truth is an agenda that opposes God’s will. Truth is at the heart of all that matters.