Oh, How I Love Your Law!

 97 Oh, how I love Your law!

It is my meditation all the day.

98 You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies;

For they are ever with me.

99 I have more understanding than all my teachers,

For Your testimonies are my meditation.

100 I understand more than the ancients,

Because I keep Your precepts.

101 I have restrained my feet from every evil way,

That I may keep Your word.

102 I have not departed from Your judgments,

For You Yourself have taught me.

103 How sweet are Your words to my taste,

Sweeter than honey to my mouth!

104 Through Your precepts I get understanding;

Therefore I hate every false way.

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105 Your word is a lamp to my feet

And a light to my path.

106 I have sworn and confirmed

That I will keep Your righteous judgments.

107 I am afflicted very much;

Revive me, O LORD, according to Your word.

108 Accept, I pray, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD,

And teach me Your judgments.

109 My life is continually in my hand,

Yet I do not forget Your law.

110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,

Yet I have not strayed from Your precepts.

111 Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever,

For they are the rejoicing of my heart.

112 I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes

Forever, to the very end.—Psalm 119:97-112

This section of Psalm 119 resonated with me this morning. My spirit testifies along with David’s that I am a precious child of God.  What the Psalmist writes and attests of the Word, I experience also!  Truly grace and peace are multiplied as we grow in the true and intimate knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. 

Oh, how I love Your law!  It is my meditation all the day.  For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching of the law is light. All things become visible when they are exposed by the light of God's precepts, for it is light that makes everything visible. Pay close attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and light breaks through the gloom and the morning star arises in your hearts.

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me.  Let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your dwelling places.  Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy...with the lyre I will praise You, O God, my God!

Beloved, let the spoken word of Christ have its home within you. Yes, let it dwell in your heart and mind—let it permeate every aspect of your being.  Teach, admonish and train one another with all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.  Whatever you do in word or deed, do all of it (everything) in Jesus’ name, depending completely on Him , while giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning,

For in You do I trust;

Cause me to know the way in which I should walk,

For I lift up my soul to You.—Psalm 143:8