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Psalm 119:166 – Hope
This verse has hope and action in the proper order. Action follows from trust and hope, not the reverse.
Psalm 119:31 – Holding God’s Testimonies
I have held tightly to your testimonies;Don’t let me be put to shame. It’s quite possible to translate the second half of this verse as “don’t put me to shame.” Have you ever felt that God was calling on you to take a certain stand, or act in a certain way, and you hope you’re…
Psalm 119:33 – You Teach Me
Teach me, LORD, the path of your statutes,and I will keep them to the end. Once when I was scheduled to teach on prayer at a conference, I had prepared an hour long talk, but as the time approached, I kept hearing in my head, “Let the Holy Spirit do the teaching.” In my mental…
Psalm 119:29 – Grace Me with Your Instruction
Deceitful ways turn aside from meand graciously give me your instruction [Torah]. It’s hard to read this verse when we use “law” as the English gloss for Torah. Graciously give me your rules? Graciously let me live in your rules? But that none of those are actually bad translations. Law or instruction, and the Torah…
Psalm 23:5 – A Table
God has prepared, current prepares, and will prepare for us a feast.
Pursued – Lamentations 1:6
There comes a time when running is useless, our strength spent, and we need a way back home.
