How I Love Your Law

Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.

Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.

I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.

I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.

I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.

I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.

Psalm 119:97-104

The Psalm overflows with the writer’s hunger to understand and experience the power of God’s Word each day. “Oh, how I love your law!” I meditate on it all day long.” This eager pursuit leads to growing wisdom, understanding, and obedience to the Lord.

The Bible doesn’t contain a magic formula for unravelling the mysteries in its pages. The process is more than mental and requires a response to what we read. While some passages may remain puzzling to us, we can’t embrace those truths we clearly understand, and say to the Lord, “How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.”

A wonderful journey of discovery awaits us in God’s Word.

A commitment to read and follow God’s Word begins

a daily journey of discovering His love and power.

Our Daily Bread – October 30, 2017