Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 34 - Psalm 119:34
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- Hello. Welcome back to Daily Bites God's Word. This is Andy Cain, and it is a joy to be back with you once again.
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- Today we are looking at Psalm 119, verse 34, says, calls me to understand that I may observe your law and keep it with all my heart.
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- He's already said in verse 32 that if he runs the way of God's commandments, his heart will be enlarged.
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- He said in verse 33, I want to be instructed so that I can observe him to the end. And he says,
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- Lord calls me to understand, will within me the ability to observe your law.
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- So as you can see, verse 33, he wanted to be instructed. 34, you see the application, he wants to be caused to not just know what
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- God's word says, but he wants to have understanding so that he can apply it when he says,
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- I may observe your law, follow it and keep it with all my heart.
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- It's not just to know what God's word says. You can have someone that could have an encyclopedic knowledge of God's word and repeat every word perbatum.
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- And if they don't have the understanding and why and how they should observe it and keep it, it profits them nothing.
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- It does you no good if you were lost or let's say you were in this cave and there were multiple ways to leave or multiple ways that you could go and you knew which way was the way to leave.
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- But if you had not the understanding and the desire to actually go down that path, even if you knew that path would have certain obstacles or there may be certain trials at times, but you knew by going down this right path, you would find yourself to freedom and safety.
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- It do you no good if you don't actually take the steps to go down that path. So he says, cause me to understand it.
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- I want to observe it and keep it. I want to do all the facets that should be involved in the
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- Christian life. When it comes to the word of God that is knowing it, meditating over it, observing it, keeping it.
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- Thus we are ultimately obedient to what our God has said we should be doing and what we should not be doing.
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- Not out of some sort of robotic pleasing in the sense that we just simply do things automatically, but that we do it because we love the
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- Lord, our God with all of our heart, our soul, our mind and our strength.