Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 54 - Psalm 119:54

Hello there, welcome back to Daily Bites, God's Word. This is A .D. Cain. It is a joy to be back with you once again.

Today we're looking at Psalm 119, verse 54. It says, "'Your statutes have become my songs "'in the house of my sojourning.'"

You ever had a song that gets stuck in your head and you couldn't get rid of it and you just kept re -humming it and singing it all day long?

Well, that's because it's something that means something to you or something that you enjoyed or sometimes it's just you catch a tune and it's just very catchy.

This is a little bit more than that. It's a little bit deeper than that. He's saying, "'Your statutes, your very word becomes my songs.'"

Now, there are some churches that will actually, and some people have taken the Psalms in the

Book of Psalms and put them to music. And some churches will actually sing the literal

Psalms out of Scripture to music in their churches and their worship services. In other songs and hymns that we sing, you may see some things quoted, other places of the

Word of God quoted. But the idea here is that the statutes and the

Word of God is so ingrained in so much in our minds and in our hearts that it literally becomes the song of our life.

If you think about it, me and people talk about, hey, that's the soundtrack of life, something that happens or something they see or some sound or, you know, that's the soundtrack of life.

You know, the soundtrack for a movie. Many people can remember, and no doubt I do, certain songs we associate with certain movies.

We say, well, that's definitely from that soundtrack. And so that's what's being said here. The soundtrack of your life, the songs that you carry in your heart, in the house of your sojourning, where you live, where you're at, where you go, everything you take with you and everything that you are needs to be rooted in the songs of Scripture, in the songs of God's Word, and just how it makes you feel and how it turns you towards Christ and towards God.

And so this is what's being pointed out here in this verse, that God's Word has become the literal song of our life.

It's what peps us up. It's got that life to it. And you know, there's just certain songs when you hear them, you can't help but get up and dance or move around or, you know, whatever.

Or there's certain songs that, you know, you think about athletes, there's certain songs that athletes will listen to to get themselves pumped up for an athletic event.

Music has so much to do with life. And so that's why there's no mistake here.

It says, you know, the Word of God has become like the very soundtrack of my life, the very song of my life.

And so is that how you approach Scripture? Is that how you view Scripture? Does Scripture mean that much to you?

That's a good question to ask. The next time you find yourself humming or thinking over a song you sang at church, and sometimes that happens to me where something that gets sung at church will be with me that whole week.

Well, stop for a moment and think about the words of that song. And if it's not something directly out of Scripture, what is it interpreting or quoting or talking about?

And go to that Scripture and read it. It'll put a whole new perspective on the song for you. Amen? Well, I want to thank you for joining me.