"Uphold my steps in Your paths, that my footsteps may not slip." (Psalm 17:5)
One meaning for the Word translated, "uphold," is, "support." I'll take both.
New translations translate our text as a fact. "My footsteps have held fast to Your paths...." Have they? The translation which I use as my "default" translation, however, the NKJV, translates it as a prayer.
The human race has lived out many regrets because it has not followed Jesus in the prayer, "Uphold, support my steps in Your paths." Had we surrendered our lives to Jesus Christ in such a prayer/life style, "....footsteps may not (have) slip[ped]."
Father, in Jesus' Name, I repeat David's prayer, "Uphold my steps in Your paths...." Amen.
Hebrews 12:2
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
