Focus on worshiping God.

Read these words:

How can a young person stay on the path of purity?

By living according to your word.

I seek you with all my heart;

do not let me stray from your commands.

I have hidden your word in my heart

that I might not sin against you.

Praise be to you, LORD;

teach me your decrees.

(Psalm 119:9-12, NIV)

Read this poem, or, if you know it, sing the hymn:

Blessed Jesus, at your word

we are gathered all to hear you.

Let our hearts and souls be stirred

now to seek and love and fear you.

By your gospel pure and holy,

teach us, Lord, to love you solely.

All our knowledge, sense, and sight

lie in deepest darkness shrouded,

till your Spirit breaks our night

with your beams of truth unclouded.

You alone to God can win us;

you must work all good within us.

Glorious Lord, yourself impart;

Light of Light, from God proceeding,

open lips and ears and heart;

help us by your Spirit’s leading.

Hear the cry your church now raises;

Lord, accept our prayers and praises.

(“Blessed Jesus, at Your Word.” Tobias Clausnitzer, 1663, trans. Catherine Winkworth, 1858. Public domain.)

Name something that God has taught you during the last week. Give thanks to God for these things.

Pray these words:

Create in me a pure heart, O God,

and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

Do not cast me from your presence

or take your Holy Spirit from me.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation

and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

(Psalm 51:10-12, NIV)

Read this promise from the Old Testament of what God will do in Jesus Christ:

“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel

after that time,” declares the LORD.

“I will put my law in their minds

and write it on their hearts.

I will be their God,

and they will be my people.

No longer will they teach their neighbor,

or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’

because they will all know me,

from the least of them to the greatest,”

declares the LORD.

“For I will forgive their wickedness

and will remember their sins no more.”

(Jeremiah 31:33-34, NIV)

Name something that you hope God will teach you this week—a way he will “write his law on your heart.”

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