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  • Yodh

    Yodh

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    Yodh (Jod)

    73 Your hands have made and fashioned me;
    give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

    Genesis 1:26a Then God said, “Let us make man[h] in our image, after our likeness.

    Genesis 2:7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. 

    Jeremiah 1:(4-)5a  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you…

    (And the Lord said to Isaac, son of Abraham even before the Law of Moses:) Genesis 26:4-5 KJV And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

    74 Those who fear you shall see me and rejoice,
    because I have hoped in your word.

    Have you ever considered that only those who fear the Lord (the beginning of wisdom) will rejoice when they see you, because you have come to know Christ Jesus and rejoice in the word of the Lord? This is the hope and joy of Christian fellowship, our relationship in the Lord. Be comforted in the attacks of the evil ones of the world and the powers of evil we neither see nor understand.

    75 I know, O Lord, that your rules are righteous,
    and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
    76 Let your steadfast love comfort me
    according to your promise to your servant.
    77 Let your mercy come to me, that I may live;
    for your law is my delight.

    78 Let the insolent be put to shame,
    because they have wronged me with falsehood;
    as for me, I will meditate on your precepts.
    79 Let those who fear you turn to me,
    that they may know your testimonies.

    Is the righteousness of your life witness of the love of Christ Jesus? Is your whole heart and living testimony blameless?

    80 May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
    that I may not be put to shame!

  • Teth

    Teth

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    Prayer is a conversation with God. He IS God and we are not.

    Therefore, our attitude is not as adam to another man. We are not equal nor do we deserve anything other than death and punishment for our sins. We must bow down to God our Master as His servant. Though a personal and approachable, loving Father, He IS the LORD.

    Teth

    65 You have dealt well with your servant,
    O Lord, according to your word.

    Has God not dealt fairly with you as a slave? Though our Father disciplines those He loves, the LORD is our Lord.

    Do we not owe our Creator obedience to His commandments and His ways?

    66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge,
    for I believe in your commandments.

    This is not the judgment of eternal punishment. It is God’s judgment of good behavior. (Roger did what is right in the eyes of the Lord, rather than did evil by lack of knowledge of God’s commandments and will for all mankind to do good and not evil.)

    Knowledge of the Lord is essential to eternal life. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: H1847 but fools despise wisdom and instruction. – Proverbs 1:7

    We tend to wander from the straight and narrow path with the Lord’s light of the commandments of scripture, don’t we?

    67 Before I was afflicted I went astray,
    but now I keep your word.
    68 You are good and do good;
    teach me your statutes.

    Thou fool! would you prefer to be bowed down to the Living God by the force of His might rather than bow down to His love by your obedience to His will?

    69 The insolent smear me with lies,
    but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;
    70 their heart is unfeeling like fat,
    but I delight in your law.

    The importance of loving God with your whole heart (and soul) is central to the teachings Hebrew scriptures. This description: Their heart is as fat as grease, is used only here in scripture. It means that without keeping God’s instruction our heart (soul) becomes insensitive. Do you not see this insensitivity in many others who deny God by their daily lives?

    71 It is good for me that I was afflicted,
    that I might learn your statutes.
    72 The law of your mouth is better to me
    than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

  • Zayin

    Zayin

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    NOTE: This psalm is an acrostic poem of twenty-two stanzas, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet; within a stanza, each verse begins with the same Hebrew letter.

    אָשַׁר –

    from the root: אָשַׁר – a verb meaning to go straight, walk, go on, advance, make progress

    Each stanza posted last week is available. Please read & COMMENT on ANY.

    A brief review:

    Aleph

    119 Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
    who walk in the law of the Lord!

    Beth

    9 How can a young man keep his way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.

    Gimel

    17 Deal bountifully with your servant,
    that I may live and keep your word.

    Daleth

    25 My soul clings to the dust;
    give me life according to your word!

    He

    33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;
    and I will keep it to the end.

    Waw (Vau)

    41 Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord,
    your salvation according to your promise

    Again, your comments are welcome and encouraged. We now continue in the next six stanzas this week:

    Zayin (Zain)

    49 Remember your word to your servant,
    in which you have made me hope.
    50 This is my comfort in my affliction,
    that your promise gives me life.

    Who is without affliction – sickness of mind or body or soul?

    Poverty of mind, body or soul – even misery of these, if you prefer. Is God not the giver of all good things? Therefore our prayer to Almighty God bows down our miserable moment to the Lord and Father of all hope.

    Remember your promises to me, O Lord, in which You have given me hope. Think now of me, dear Father. See the misery of my days and renew your hope in me; for I am your servant, dependent on You.

    The KJV in verse 50 states:  “… for thy word hath quickened me.”

    Let the word of God in scripture and the God’s Word, who IS Christ Jesus, give me life!

    51 The insolent utterly deride me,
    but I do not turn away from your law.
    52 When I think of your rules from of old,
    I take comfort, O Lord.
    53 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,
    who forsake your law.

    Again, in the KJV, verse 53 states our woe even more pointedly:

    Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

    Who forsakes the God’s law and that which is right? From this we take our word, apostate,’ 0ne who turns from the salvation of God to do what is right in their own eyes. Do we not suffer at the hands of those who have done such wickedness? In fact, ‘wicked‘ is a description that no longer carries the weight of hell to which the punishment of the wicked without Christ Jesus will receive. Turning from God is a most serious offense. Christians true to the Law and the love of God our Father will suffer at the hands of the wicked, who are unto their own lawless ways.

    54 Your statutes have been my songs
    in the house of my sojourning.
    55 I remember your name in the night, O Lord,
    and keep your law.

    What is the house of our sojourning? It is this dying flesh and bones, decaying back to dust and ashes without the quickening and life of the Spirit of God.

    “I have remembered your name, O LORD…” It is the same remembrance of our petition to God which begins the stanza. Remember God and have blessing.

    56 This blessing has fallen to me,
    that I have kept your precepts.