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176 words on 176 Verses. “ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”  (Ps 119:11)  The most assured way to not wander from his commandments is to hide his word in our hearts. But what miracle is this? Can we truly presume that a word hidden in our heart can keep us from sin? We can if that word is Gods own word. We are reminded that all Scripture is given by inspiration…

176 words on 176 Verses. “ With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.”  (Ps 119:10) It is with our heart that we seek after the Lord; it is our heart that rejects God and it is only our heart which believes. The evangelist was asked what it may be that can hinder a man from baptism, his answer “if thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest” (Acts 8:37). Therefore, it is…

176 words on 176 Verses.   “ Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?  By taking heed thereto according to thy word.”  (Ps 119:9) Yet again we find that action taken upon the word of God to be that necessary thing by which we may be cleansed. A young man may have opportunity to change much in his life if it be his mind, but how? No question that we all should seek early to cleanse our way, to be…

176 words on 176 Verses. “ I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.”  (Ps 119:8)  There is certainly not a statute we can keep if we have not learned them (v7) and if we have learned them but not kept them then it is also certain we have not learned them, for not to do is not to know. But o to keep the statutes of the Lord, what a joy it is. Everything changes, not only our…

176 words on 176 Verses. “I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, When I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.”  (Ps 119:7) We come to the final word used as a synonym to the word ‘Word’ in Psalm 119, the word ‘Judgements’. Throughout the Psalm then we have seven synonyms all found in the first seven verses. But though they are synonyms, that does not suggest they carry the same meaning, but certain it is that they carry with…

“Then shall I not be ashamed, When I have respect unto all thy commandments.”  Psalm 119:6 As is often the case, it is not until we accept what the Lord teaches by faith and act upon that faith, that we come to realize the truth of what he commands. In our previous verse we note that it will not be until our ways are directed to keep his statutes (v5) that only “Then shall I not be ashamed…”. It will only…

 “Thou hast commanded us To keep thy precepts diligently.”  (Ps 119:4) In days where iniquity seems to abound, this verse sounds a distant memory. Indeed, it is that God has commanded us, and done so throughout the passages of holy writ, to keep his precepts. This does not merely refer to holding them and trusting them, but obey them, and that with diligence. It is God that the psalmist recalls had given this command, it did not come from a…

 “They also do no iniquity: They walk in his ways.”  (Ps 119:3) “They”, is the pronoun of the ‘blessed’ who “keep”(v2) the testimonies of the Lord, who also “Walk”(v1) in the Law of the Lord, these could clearly do no iniquity, how can they do iniquity for they “walk in his ways”?  They do not walk in their own ways, they do not walk in the ways of other men, they walk only in “his” ways; this being the Lord…

“Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, And that seek him with the whole heart.”  (Ps 119:2) Blessedness is that which I have already expounded upon, that truly happy state of man that can only come from the Joy of following the Lord, trusting in him exceedingly. But to those who ‘keep’ his testimonies, those who would ‘retain’, ‘hold’, ‘guard’ and ‘trust’ in the words of the Lord, those same words that form within them a coherent whole of testimony,…