Reading
SAA Notes
You find many emotions in this psalm – despair: verse 123, impatience: verse 126, love: verses 113, 127, wonder: verse 129, trust: verse 117. Every time you read this psalm, you can find one thing that speaks to your heart and mind.
SJA Notes
* God Above, we are your servants – Give us understanding, that we might know Your testimonies!
“Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live.”
The question this psalm asks of us is _How important is God’s Word?_
The answer is the same at the start, middle and here at the end … VERY!
God’s Word is what we are to love! (v113)
God’s Word is wonderful, worthy to be kept! (v129)
God’s Word gives light, it gives understanding to the simple! (v130)
God’s Word is full of His promises to us; promises to uphold us that we may live! (v116)
God’s Word is better than gold (money, wealth, power, fame)! (v127)
And God’s Word is RIGHT. TRUE. Absolutely and without end, TRUE. (v128)
The Psalmist cries out for wisdom, knowing the truth of what we read in James ch 1,
“If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.”
Let us ask God for His wisdom today!
* Loving God,
Please write Your wisdom, Your word, on our hearts today.
Please help us consider today the place we give Your word in our lives.
May those around us see Jesus and trust in Him! Your word become flesh.
Amen.