Daily Bites Of God's Word - Part 56 - Psalm 119:56

Hello, welcome back to Daily Bites of God's Word. This is Andy Cain. It's a joy to be back with you once again. Today we're looking at Psalm 119 verse 56.

It says, This has become mine, that I observe your precepts. This has become mine.

This has become my possession. This what? He says in the previous verse, I keep your law.

Your law, your word, your scripture, it's become mine. It's become what's important to me.

So what do you spend your time on? What are you spending your thinking life on? What is important to you?

What is something that is core to you? He's saying this has become mine. It's who

I am. It's everything that matters to me. What? That I, or because I observe your precepts.

So there's sort of two things going on here. Number one, he's saying it's become my life statement. It's become who

I am, that I'm going to observe your precepts and obey your word. But he's also saying that as I do this, because I'm obeying your word, because I'm seeking your word, it becomes more of who

I am. I dive deeper into it. It becomes more of what I want to see in my life.

It's the natural progression of the Christian life that as you go into a deeper knowledge of Christ, you want to know more.

And I can attest to this. You know, when I was in a time in my life where I was not in God's word, not studying it, not using all proper tools available to me to grow in my knowledge, you tend to think, oh, it's too hard or there's too much.

Or, you know, I couldn't possibly wrap my head around it. And then you get lazy and you don't deal with it at all.

Or you get a sermon on Sunday and you think, well, that's good enough to hold me. Well, what you find out is when you don't try to tackle it all at one time, when you take it in pieces, and you take this piece and this piece and meditate deeply over small sections, over time your knowledge grows.

That's why expository preaching is so important. Verse by verse, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph.

And as you build layer upon layer, precept upon precept, this is why

Scripture says these things. The word of God is not meant to be taken in one meal.

You digest it all, check it off, or like in the Matrix style, right? You know, you download all files to your brain.

I remember the movie The Matrix where they're on the roof and they've got a helicopter or something there.

And, you know, the woman character, her name's Trinity. She's like, you know, do you know how to fly that thing? She's like, not yet.

And they download the files into her brain and now she does. It doesn't work like that, y 'all.

It takes time, effort, progress, accumulation of knowledge, a consistent growth in your knowledge.

Start small, do something, then build and grow. Don't be thinking about, okay, well here's the level of knowledge

I want to attain to. Start with, okay, start with 1 John. Start with the

Gospel of John. Start with the Psalms. Start with Genesis. Start somewhere. Take it slow.

Read it. Understand it. Use commentaries. Use your pastor. Use a variety of viewpoints.

Try to find the consistent interpretation based on the original audience's understanding and the original author's intent.

And start to build up your own catalog and library in your mind of the truth of Scripture.

And I promise you that what you'll find is that over time, you'll say, this is mine.

It's in me. It's what I know. It literally comes out of me. It's the breath of my life.

It's because I obeyed and kept the precepts of God and studied the

Word of God. And you'll find yourself just naturally drawing on that knowledge and rehearsing and repeating

Scripture you've studied because you've looked at it and read it and studied it so many times.

And that's what I want for you. That's the whole point of God -centered theology is to be God -centered in our

Bible study and everything that we do. Amen? Well, I want to thank you for joining me on this daily bite of God's Word.