Psalm 18: 19-24
He also brought me out into a broad place; He delivered me because He delighted in me. The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord. And have not wickedly departed from my God. For all His judgments were before me, and I did not put away His statutes from me. I was also blameless before Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity, therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.
This passage continues in praise of God and David's worthiness. God 'delighted' in David because of his faithfulness to God. David believed that he had been reward because he had kept his hands clean. 'For I have kept the ways of the Lord' is the way to a new life with Jesus in the New Testament. David states that he did not turn from the laws of God.
This passage is very reassuring to me that IF I do the right things and live a good life---as well as being born again....that God will reward me and I will be with Him in Heaven. Keeping the ways of the Lord is sometimes difficult in hard times. Jesus says in the New Testament that "HE is the way, the truth and the life."
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