Today’s passage: Psalm 119:25-48
Helpful thoughts:
- Daleth
- Verses 25-28 describe our natural condition and then our confession of sin.
- Verses 29-30 describe a change of desire. Godly repentance is happening here.
- Verses 31-32 describe our new condition as believers, running hard after God according to God’s Word.
- He (Pronounced, Hay)
- Knowing God’s Word and obeying it (Verses 33-34) results in joy, love, purposeful living, reflecting God’s glory (displaying Christ-likeness), lack of guilt and shame (Verses 35-39).
- Waw (Pronounced, Wow or Vav)
- The answer to the world’s opposition come from the Lord. He is our savior, defender and refuge.
- The “wide place” in verse 45 is another way to say that we would walk or live in liberty.
- Lifting up hands (Verse 48) depicts an eagerness to receive the Word.
Questions to consider:
- What does it mean for our hearts to be “enlarged?” (Verse 32) Knowing that we can substitute the words “heart” and “mind,” what would we be talking about if we said, “enlarge my mind?” Where should new and expanded thoughts come from for the child of God who is going to “run in the ways” of God’s commands?
- How are the results listed for verses 35-39 written out? Joy – Verse 35, Love – 36, Purpose – 37, Reflecting glory or showing Christ-likeness – 38, Lack of guilt or shame – 39? How does knowing and following the Word provide these things?
- How does obeying God’s commands compare to having liberty? Wouldn’t people be prone to think that obeying someone else is the opposite of liberty? When we have been granted salvation (Verse 41), what are we liberated from (Romans 6:5-14)?