“Teach me, Lord, the meaning of Your statutes, and I will always keep them. Help me understand Your instruction, and I will obey it and follow it with all my heart. Help me stay on the path of Your commands, for I take pleasure in it. Turn my heart to Your decrees and not to material gain. Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless; give me life in Your ways. Confirm what You said to Your servant, for it produces reverence for You. Turn away the disgrace I dread; indeed, Your judgments are good. How I long for Your precepts! Give me life through Your righteousness.” Psalms 119:33-40 HCSB
The letter “Hey” is the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It has the meaning of “look” or “behold”. “Hey” is representative of God’s creative power.
“Teach me, Lord, the meaning of Your statutes, and I will always keep them.”
Psalms 119:33 HCSB
The Bible is alive and active (Hebrews 4:12). We need an alive and active God to help us understand all of it. He created us, He spoke the created world into existence. He will speak to our situations too.
“Help me understand Your instruction, and I will obey it and follow it with all my heart.”
Psalms 119:34 HCSB
Knowledge is passed down from generation to generation, but wisdom is given from God. The Psalmist is asking God for His wisdom to understand God’s instructions.
“Help me stay on the path of Your commands, for I take pleasure in it.”
Psalms 119:35 HCSB
When God continually creates a new experience in our life it makes us want to serve God. When life gets humdrum we tend to lose our pleasure in God.
“Turn my heart to Your decrees and not to material gain.”
Psalms 119:36 HCSB
Who of us is guilty of breaking one rule of God to make more money? What a different world if everyone would live the way we were created and not break the rules of God to find more money.
“Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless; give me life in Your ways.”
Psalms 119:37 HCSB
We forget that anything, besides God, we chase after is worthless in heaven. Our most fulfilling pursuit is life with God.
“Confirm what You said to Your servant, for it produces reverence for You.”
Psalms 119:38 HCSB
If you're waiting but wavering on a word from God to be fulfilled pray this back to God. When you see God fulfill what He said He would do and how he does it, it adds faith in you. See Numbers 23:19.
“Turn away the disgrace I dread; indeed, Your judgments are good.”
Psalms 119:39 HCSB
God turns our deepest regrets in great opportunities for Him. God is always creating. He did not stop creating on day 6. His greatest creation is you and me.
“How I long for Your precepts! Give me life through Your righteousness.”
Psalms 119:40 HCSB
God’s precepts direct our path. The more we learn about God the more we ought to learn to love Him.
Look! Behold! God’s creative works in your life as you begin to read and obey His word.
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