Oh, how I love your law! It is my meditation all day long. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is always with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your decrees are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. I do not turn away from your ordinances, for you have taught me. How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn an oath and confirmed it, to observe your righteous ordinances. I am severely afflicted; give me life, O LORD, according to your word. Accept my offerings of praise, O LORD, and teach me your ordinances. I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law. The wicked have laid a snare for me, but I do not stray from your precepts. Your decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart. I incline my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.

Psalm 119:97-112

Do you have a program of reading the Bible every day? Your children can learn at an early age that scripture is God-breathed. The Bible can also expose children to the depths and spiritual heights of which we are all capable, and it teaches them right from wrong.

If you read God’s Word straight through you will begin to see the unfolding plan of God’s redeeming grace, and that you were the object of His love even before you were born. Do it once, and you will want to do it again.

Those who only sample the Bible

never acquire a taste for it.

Our Daily Bread – December 4, 2004