Psalm 119:174 – Delight
Longing and delight are both produced by God’s grace that starts giving before we ever ask, even before we even are.
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.
Psalm 119:43 – Power to Speak Truth
Never take the word of truth from my mouthfor I place my hope in your judgments. Tomorrow morning I’ll be leading a discussion of John Wesley in my Sunday School class. The notes in the book we’re using point especially to Wesley’s view of prevenient grace and to Christian perfection. It’s interesting to take these…
Psalm 119:35 – Make Me Do What I Want To
Make me walk in the path of your commands,For in it I take delight. On first read, this verse can sound very strange. Some translations and some interpreters tend to take a less forceful reading of the first verb, the one I translate “make me walk.” We sometimes think that we do what we want…