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  • 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.

     

  • Aleph

    Aleph

    Psalm 119
    English Standard Version (ESV)
    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

    Aleph

    119  Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
    who walk in the law of the Lord!
    2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,
    who seek him with their whole heart,
    3 who also do no wrong,
    but walk in his ways!
    4 You have commanded your precepts
    to be kept diligently.
    5 Oh that my ways may be steadfast
    in keeping your statutes!
    6 Then I shall not be put to shame,
    having my eyes fixed on all your commandments.
    7 I will praise you with an upright heart,
    when I learn your righteous rules.
    8 I will keep your statutes;
    do not utterly forsake me!

    • Is your way blameless? Do you walk with integrity?

    My way has not always been blameless. I have sometimes wandered from the narrow way of Christ Jesus and had no resemblance to our Lord.

    Matthew 7:13-14  “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

    I’ve  broken His Law in my heart and transgressed the Commandment of His will.

    “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

    The testimony of my life, my marriage and my work is NOT the witness of a Christian, though I seek Christ Jesus with my whole heart.  I do what I do not want to do and do not do what the Lord wants me to do (like Paul {Romans 7:15}).

    I am shamed by what I am and what I have done, even in the house of the Lord!

    I praise you, Lord Jesus.

    Do not utterly forsake me (as many whom I love in your Name have forgotten your servant and reject Your love through my heart with trepidation and unforgiveness).