Psalm 119:135 – Shine
We need to know God’s rules both so we know what God calls us to do, but also so we know when human rules are masquerading as divine commands.
Psalm 119:117 – Sustain
The psalmist presents a lawgiver God, but also a creator who redeems and sustains.
Psalm 119:80 – Blameless
Let my heart be steadfast in your statutesso I will not be put to shame. If you immerse yourself in this Psalm, you’ll lose any sense of boastfulness and self-sufficiency. There are claims before God to being a commandment keeper, but they are well-balanced by those passages that ask the Lord to accomplish this work….
Psalm 119:8 – I’m Going to Do It; Help!
I will observe your statues.Don’t completely forsake me! Sometime we’re so busy looking for the really holy things and the absolutely correct commands in scripture that we fail to see the human element. But to miss that human element really misses much of the message of scripture. Scripture speaks in the way it developed and…