Psalm 119:169 – Understanding
Asking God for understanding or wisdom is a good idea, but we need to be ready to receive wisdom. That might require change! Oh no! Here comes repentance!
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Psalm 119:168 – You Know My Ways
God sees everything about us. Is this a threat or a privilege?
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Psalm 119:167 – Keeping
How is it possible to love the law? Is it possible to keep God’s law? This verse leads me to meditate on those questions.
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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.
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Psalm 119:165 – Offense
What causes us offence? How can we live a life without such offence?
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Psalm 119:164 – Seven Times
The psalmist will praise God seven times a day. What are some other things that are repeated seven times in scripture?
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Psalm 119:163 – Falsehood
True appreciation of God’s teachings requires a consistent rejection of falsehood.
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Psalm 119:162 – Rejoicing
God seeks us and rejoices when we are found, but we also get joy when found. God’s word comes to us as a joy-carrier.
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Psalm 119:161 – Persecuted
What do we fear most? What keeps us from talking genuinely about what we believe, and what we don’t? Perhaps God’s word to us would be “Fear not!”
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Psalm 119:160 – Truth
In which I call for a commitment to truth, but also to humility.
