“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
How can I understand the Bible? It is a question I hear all the time and you
can find the answer here. Here the
psalmist is asking for understanding. Because
you cannot follow something if you cannot understand what it is you’re supposed
to follow, follow me? The Bible is a
collection of books and letters of faith. It is not a history book, but we do
find historical facts. It is not a
scientific book either. It is a book of faith.
There are things contained in the Bible that are mysteries and you and I
will not fully understand. Bible is God’s
word to mankind and it reveals His nature and purpose to us. To understand it we need help. When we accept Christ as our Lord we are
filled and sealed by the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 1:22). The Holy Spirit acts as a guide for us or to
better understand a ‘flash light’. It
brings to ‘light’ passages and guides us in our understanding of God and our
relationship with Him.
The psalmist is asking God to teach Him the meaning of the
word so that he might obey. We too
should pray before reading our Bibles or engage in group study for the Holy
Spirit to teach us, to guide our thoughts so that we learn what God wants us to
know and understand. Each one of us is
at different levels of understanding and God meets us where we are. When we realize it is God who gives us the
ability to understand, it is God who gives us the ability to follow Him, we
take the first step of growing and experiencing living in victory. As we grow in the word the things that we use
to think were so important slowly fade away.
Ungodly desires that once dominated us are replaced with desires for God
and His will.
Lord this morning we ask you to understand Your word. Help us to follow Your word with all of our
hearts. Change our desires. Create in our hearts a desire for You. To know Your word to know you deeper so that
we can make You known to others! Amen
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