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  • 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!

  • Gimel

    Gimel

    Psalm 119
    English Standard Version (ESV)
    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    Does your meditation time include prayer and petition to God?

    Here is a worthy prayer for your whole heart.

    Gimel

    17 Deal bountifully with your servant,
    that I may live and keep your word.
    18 Open my eyes, that I may behold
    wondrous things out of your law.

    “Open thou my eyes,” states the King James.

    ‘Open,’ as ‘uncover’ what you do not see exists in the eyes of God, never-the-less.

    And note from the translation that it is God we ask to open our eyes and not we ourselves who open our eyes to anything without first opening our eyes to the Lord God.  It is that same understanding of good and evil that God sees.

    Two important meditations of understanding follow:

    1. We are sojourners – travelers on the earth. As children of God we have become strangers who do not belong on this earth of sin.
    2. Our prayer to our Father in heaven is that He would reveal or uncover what He sees in the Law and the Commandments.

    19 I am a sojourner on the earth;
    hide not your commandments from me!

    20 My soul is consumed with longing
    for your rules at all times.
    21 You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones,
    who wander from your commandments.

    Is your soul consumed with longing for God’s rules at all time?

    For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. – Deuteronomy 4:24

    “My soul breaketh,” states the KJV. Does your heart break; is it crushed with longing for the judgments of God? The KJV also points toward the wrath of God on those who do not consider His commandments:

    21 Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.

    In this the Psalmist warns: the curse of God will come upon those who are proud and err in our ways of wandering from the straight and narrow path of the commandments. God rebukes those He loves; but we had best listen and repent if we do not want to experience the wrath of God’s consuming fire.

    22 Take away from me scorn and contempt,
    for I have kept your testimonies.
    23 Even though princes sit plotting against me,
    your servant will meditate on your statutes.

    To meditate on the word of the Lord is a picture of life – a germination of a new and godly life in our soul which can blossom into eternal life.

    24 Your testimonies are my delight;
    they are my counselors.

  • Beth

    Beth

    Your Word Is a Lamp to My Feet

    Beth

    9  How can a young man keep his way pure?

    By guarding it according to your word.

     

    Some versions of the Psalm ask:

    How can a young man cleanse his way?

    Do you recognize sin for the filth of the dust it is?

    Do you need bathed in the righteousness of Christ Jesus?

    I do.

    10 With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not wander from your commandments!

    The Prophet Jeremiah warns [17:5 ESV & 17:9 KJV]:

    Thus says the LORD:
    “Cursed is the man who trusts in man
    and makes flesh his strength,
    whose heart turns away from the LORD.

    The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

    11 I have stored up your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you.
    12 Blessed are you, O Lord;
    teach me your statutes!
    13 With my lips I declare
    all the rules of your mouth.
    14 In the way of your testimonies I delight
    as much as in all riches.
    15 I will meditate on your precepts
    and fix my eyes on your ways.

    The King James Version translates:

    15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

    Do you actually consider God’s ways over your own misguided ways?

    Do you have so much respect for God and the Cross of Christ that you focus on the Way of our Lord Christ Jesus? He IS the Word and the Light of the Way of our Salvation.

    16 I will delight in your statutes;
    I will not forget your word.