The Devotional – 1483 – The judgments of God do not change

The Devotional – 1483 – The judgments of God do not change

Psalm 119:49-56 – Remember the word to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has given me life. The proud have me in great derision, yet I do not turn aside from Your law. I remembered Your judgments of old, O Lord, And have comforted myself. Indignation has taken hold of me because of the wicked, who forsake Your law. Your statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. I remember Your name in the night, O Lord, And I keep Your law. This has become mine, because I kept Your precepts.

 

Comments and Challenges

I have rapidly walked through Psalm 119 so far, but as I do there are these thoughts that say, “Do it again” and what I mean by this is that the eight verse divisions of this Psalm are excellent platforms to initiate nearly every study or moment of meditation in the Word of God. The psalmists challenge to remember and hope in the Word are not primarily for God but for his own self to be stirred up the power of the Holy Spirit and his soul to recall to mind the riches of God’s everlasting Word.

If we have quenched or grieved the Holy Spirit and leave the grace of being in fellowship with God the harm of this can be unrecoverable as the apostle John indicates in 2 John 1:5. We have the responsibility to look to ourselves, that we do not lose those things (spiritual rewards) we have worked for in the past, but that we (you) may receive a full reward. To be deceived by the deceiver is to allow someone else to teach you where or when you should be teaching yourself.

When confined to a regiment of unprincipled ethics we could fall victim to those beliefs. Affliction from unbelieving men and woman can and often does lead us to believe that their ways may help in some fashion. This leading of a way is caused by one thing and that is a lack of study and meditation in the Living Word of God. We may say that we are not confined, but eight hours or more a day in the work place is a confinement, also three or four hours within that family of unbelievers is a confinement.

Being deceived by the crowd that surrounds us is always a temptation, while the law of God is at work in our conscience the world is at large. The apostle John in 1 John 2:15-17 says that we should not love the world as the world loves its own; this love is sensual and does not know the Father. Being full of the lust of the flesh and eyes it is the pride of human life; therefore it will never attain to the Father’s love and it will remain worldly. But whoever does the will of God abides forever. “So I will continue to keep the Word of Thy law forever” – Psalm 119:44.

Nearly; if not all of the verses of Psalm 119 are directed at the Word, Statutes, Commandments, Judgments, Precepts, Laws and testimonies of God. If we are to have sanctifying victory (day to day living as saints of God) we must be willing to abide is the Living Word of God. And do you not know that Jesus Christ is the Living Word of God, in the flesh of His past and now in the glorified power of His resurrection? Note John 15:1-27 and He is RISEN AND ALIVE INDEED – Luke 24:28-35.

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