Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 15 - Psalm 119:15
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- Hello and welcome back to Daily Bites, God's Word. This is Andy Cain. It's a joy to be back with you once again.
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- Today we are going to look at Psalm 119 verse 15. It says,
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- I will muse upon your precepts and look upon your ways. The things that you put your focus on, the things that you look upon, the things that you are prioritized on, that you set your sight on are the things that are going to affect you the most.
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- If you think about a hunter and he's out in the woods with his gun and his scope and he's looking down that line to see the deer or the animal that he's looking to shoot, he's going to have to stay focused on that animal.
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- He can't be looking to the side, left or right, or up and down, or worrying about any other things that are going on at that time.
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- He's going to have to be looking upon, looking straight down that scope and being fully focused on his target, fully focused on the thing that he wants.
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- And thus is the way with a spiritual life, the Christian life. We need to be totally focused on God.
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- New Testament and even in Deuteronomy, it talks about how we're supposed to love the Lord, our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
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- And so in order to do that, we're going to need to be focused on his word, musing upon his precepts, thinking about them, thinking through them.
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- This is what meditation is. It's not some special mystical thing like we see in our world today.
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- It's just simply thinking over, thinking through, analyzing, wondering about, thinking about the meaning.
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- How does that apply to me? Where's the application? What things need to change? What things are going well?
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- Thinking about those precepts, thinking about those things God has prescribed. Looking upon your ways, looking upon the ways in which
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- God acts, looking upon the way in which God operates, how he expects me to operate in light of who he is.
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- All these things go into what the psalmist is talking about here in verse 15.
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- Musing, thinking upon the prescriptions, the precepts, looking out upon the ways of God, looking down that scope in your life and having that laser focus on what
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- God is looking or is achieving in your life, what he wants you to do, how he wants you to be, how he's working to sanctify you and grow you in holiness.
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- All those things, you cannot be moving forward in that direction if you're looking over to the side and being distracted by all sorts of things.
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- You need to be focused and prioritized and like the psalmist here, look upon the ways of God.