Love for God’s Word and prayer for quickening

 

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness. Psalm 119:159

The psalmist loves God's Word, so he asks for quickening.  Love for God's Word is a good argument for prayer. Because he loves God's Word, he wants to obey God's precepts, and he knows he cannot do it  without God’s strength. Therefore, he asks the Lord to revive him.

 I love Your Word, quicken me to obey it, to tell others, to reject everything that is contrary to Your Word.

 From my diary,

February 12, 2023

Love for God's Word and peace

Great peace have those who love Your law, And nothing causes them to stumble. Psalm 119:165

Peace is the result of love for God's Word. It is not written that great peace have those who know God's Word, who read it, preach it, but those who love God's Word. Lovers of God's Word are thankful for God's Word, meditate on God's Word,delight in God's Word, grieve when they sin against it.

Nothing will cause them to stumble: neither wealth, nor tribulations, persecutions. nor the bad behavior of the so-called Christians. Such people  have peace in their conscience, in their heart, in their mind, they have peace with God and, as far as it depends on them, they have peace with all people.

 From my diary,

February 11, 2023

Love for God’s Word and hate for falsehood

 

I hate and abhor falsehood, but I love Your law. Psalm 119:163

I hate the double-minded, but I love Your law. Psalm 119:113

God's law is truth, and it is obvious that those who love truth should hate its opposite, falsehood.The psalmist hates all kinds of lies and falsehood in everything: falsehood in words, in deeds, in teaching.

Falsehood is hated by God, and  by those who love God's Word.

From my diary,

February 10, 2023

Loving and keeping

 My soul keeps Your testimonies, And I love them exceedingly. Psalm 119:167

The psalmist keeps God's Word and loves it exceedingly. Keeping and loving are connected. He loves God's Word, therefore he keeps it. People always keep the things they love carefully, they keep them like a treasure in the best place, they don't carelessly put them somewhere.

The psalmist doesn't just like God's Word, he loves it exceedingly. Because God's Word is exceedingly wonderful, exceedingly powerful, exceedingly wise,  exceedingly effective, therefore it deserves exceeding love.

From my diary,

February 9, 2023

Love for God's Word and purity

 

Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. - Psalm 119:140

 Once  a dear sister told me that her husband, a pastor, had read a passage from Psalm 119  at the meeting. She told me, "When he read that Psalm, I  remembered you right away".  I know that many believers know me as someone who loves the  Psalm 119. But the most important thing is for the Lord to recognize me as a lover of His Word described in that psalm.

The psalmist loves the Word of God and knows why he loves it. God’s  Word is pure and has cleansing power. The sinners who grieve for their sins love  the Word of God because they long  to be cleansed by that pure, cleansing Word. Those who are purified by the Word of God love God’s Word, because the pure love what is pure. They hate everything that is contrary to that Word, they desire to live in that Word, they strive to live in accordance with that Word;  in holiness.

From my diary,

February 8, 2023

Love and delight

 

And I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love. Psalm 119:47

If you love something, you delight in it.

A sure sign that you love God's Word is that you delight in it.

The psalmist delights in God's Word, that is why God's Word is sweeter than honey to him.

How sweet are Your words to my taste,
Sweeter than honey to my mouth! Psalm 119:103

He delights in the Word of God, therefore he cannot forget it.

I will delight myself in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word. Psalm 119:16

You will not forget something you love, something you delight in.

He prays to see  the wonders of God's Word.

Open my eyes, that I may see
Wondrous things from Your law. Psalm 119:18

He prays that he may walk in the path of God's commandments because he delights in it.

Make me walk in the path of Your commandments,
For I delight in it. Psalm 119:35

He prays that  the tender mercies of God come to him,  and for this prayer he has the right argument: ‘’For Your law is my delight’’. Psalm 119:77

He is not perished in his  affliction, because he has a source of comfort, because God’s law has been his delight.

Unless Your law had been my delight,
I would then have perished in my affliction. Psalm 119:92

 He delights in God’s Word, therefore His commandments are precious to him, more than fine gold. (Psalm 119:127).

If I love God’s Word, I will delight in it.

 If I delight in it, I will pray to see its wondrous things, I will not forget it, I will find comfort in it, I will long to walk in it.

From my diary,

February 7, 2023

Love and meditation

 

Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. Psalm 119:97

Love for God’s Word and meditation on God's Word always go together. It is impossible to love something and not think about it. If you love, you start to think, and the opposite is true: if you think about something a lot, you start to love.

I meditate on God's Word because I love it, and the more I meditate, the more I love it;

Those who sincerely say: " Oh, how I love Your law," they will definitely also say. " It is my meditation all the day ".

From my diary,

February 6, 2023