The goodness of God

 

Psalm 119: 65-72

 

October 22, 2022

 

Teth

You have dealt well with your servant, O Lord, according to your word.  Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.  Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.  You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.  The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts; their heart is unfeeling like fat, but I delight in your law.  It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.  The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

 

TETH - The goodness of God.

 

The importance of Scripture memory is not to impress, but to keep one from regressing in the flesh and not walking in the Spirit.  As a young man said in a class I was teaching, “The Word of God is not a spotlight for our path, it is candlelight to help with the next step.”  My understanding of what he said was it is not to light up the path but to have each of us depend on the written Word to guide our path.

 

I have yet to meet a follower of Christ with a different testimony than the Psalmist.  You have dealt well with your servant, O Lord, according to your word.  Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments. 

 

But I and many others have this testimony, and it is not something we are proud of; “Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep your word.  You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.”  As we learn to study the Word for application, it comes alive, and we become truth seekers.

 

This quote has great meaning to each of us whose affection brought us to learn from the Witten Word.  “ It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes.”  It matters not what brought on the affection, greed, and lust, you and I were set up, we read the word as a religious activity but it was not for application, it was not that light for our feet to keep us on the path God had for us.

 

What a great way to end this: TETH - The goodness of God.  Not one thing the world has to offer can come close to the goodness of our Lord.  The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice