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  • Heth

    Heth

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    Heth (Cheth)

    57 The Lord is my portion;
    I promise to keep your words.

    The LORD is my portion.

    What does this mean to you?

    To begin, let us disavow the popular preaching from the mega-pulpits of false teaching that God’s blessings are yours to name and claim: God gives us our ‘portion‘ for HIS glory and not ours in the eyes of men.

    You, O Lord, are our inheritance! You are our portion for heaven after we have died to our own wills of greed and self-indulgence.

    58 I entreat your favor with all my heart;
    be gracious to me according to your promise.

    I come to you in weakness, in my sickness of heart. With all of my heart (not just a portion set aside for god) I beg you for your favor. NOT ‘favor’ as in a favorite son, but favor as in, Have mercy on me, a sinner. 

    59 When I think on my ways,
    I turn my feet to your testimonies;
    60 I hasten and do not delay
    to keep your commandments.
    61 Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,
    I do not forget your law.
    62 At midnight I rise to praise you,
    because of your righteous rules.

    When you are in trouble do you rise to praise the Lord?

    Now follows the importance of Christian community: one Christian for the support of all other Christians who also fear the Lord:

    63 I am a companion of all who fear you,
    of those who keep your precepts.
    64 The earth, O Lord, is full of your steadfast love;
    teach me your statutes!

    The Lord is faithful, even unto death. For Life is ours in Christ Jesus, who also suffered and was sacrificed for our transgressions of the law and hears our prayers and witness and calling upon Him. Jesus IS Lord.

    Teach us your statutes! It is not only a call to memorize 10 commandments or learn a number of rules; it is the plea of our heart that God will show us (His servants) what to do and how to do it His way. Our strong desire should be to hear and do all that Jesus Christ has taught us in Person.

    Do you desire the Lord to teach you His statutes? (Here is a start.)

  • 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.

  • Daleth

    Daleth

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    Daleth

    cling to the dust25 My soul clings to the dust;
    give me life according to your word!

    Genesis 2:7 KJV And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

    Genesis 3:19 KJV In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

    Psalm 119: 25 KJV My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

    26 When I told of my ways, you answered me;
    teach me your statutes!

    The Lord answers prayer. And where and what is the answer? In the word of scripture, including the commands, law and statutes of the Lord. The Spirit reveals all truth of scripture when we genuinely seek the Lord’s will with all of our heart (soul).

    Does your soul cling to the dust in humility before the Lord? Do you remember that we are dust and to dust our flesh will return?

    27 Make me understand the way of your precepts,
    and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
    28 My soul melts away for sorrow;
    strengthen me according to your word!

    Is anything too hard for the Lord? – Genesis 1:18a

    Though our soul clings to the dust and our spirit is downtrodden, how uplifted is our countenance when we look higher to the strength of God and glorify His mighty works and the grace of His compassion.

    29 Put false ways far from me
    and graciously teach me your law!
    30 I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
    I set your rules before me.
    31 I cling to your testimonies, O Lord;
    let me not be put to shame!
    32 I will run in the way of your commandments
    when you enlarge my heart!

    John 11.25And from the dust and ashes we shall rise in Christ Jesus!