Deuteronomy 23:14 (NIV) says:

"For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you.  Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you."

Amazing.  What a promise from God.  He will protect and deliver us!  My thought on this first day of 2007 is that my "camp" must be holy.  I must fulfill the requirement that God states in this verse.  I need to examine my life in some areas:

*Have I pitched my tent in the appropriate place?  Verse 9 says to stay away from everything unclean.  Do I need to move my "camp" elsewhere in regard to friends, books, movies, etc?

*Have I promised something to God that I haven't fulfilled?  Verse 21 says that to not fulfill my promises to God is sin.

*What do I need to rid myself of that is not holy?  This promise in verse 14 is so beautiful, yet it says that God will turn away from  me if my camp is indecent.  What sin is lurking in the recesses of my heart and needs to be removed?  Oh, God, reveal any wicked way in me.  (Psalm 139:23-24)

The fact that I am a "treasured possession" (Deut. 26:18) gives me the impetus to clean up my camp.  And when my camp is clean, then I can praise Him. 

He is good..all the time.

"He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God.  Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord."  (Psalm 40:3)