Psalm 119

Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day! Psalm 119:97

A few years ago a friend and I decided that we would read through the Bible together. Each week we would decide what chapters were to be read and then we would keep each other accountable to read them. We would try to read several chapters a day. If one of us did not read it (this only happened once or twice), we would read the chapters again to make sure that we both had read them. We ended up reading the Bible twice through.

I remember when we would get to Psalm 119. I would groan because this was the longest chapter in the Bible. I complained out loud to my friend that the next weeks reading would take a long time.` It wasn’t till the second time reading through it that I was convicted about what I said. I realized that I did not love His law. I realized that I saw reading it a chore rather than a delight.

Psalm 119 has now become a favorite chapter of mine. The author loved meditating on the Word of God. He found it to be a delight. I on the other hand? I am still growing in my love for and desire to meditate on His word. I want to get to a place where I delight in his Word.

Psalm 119: 35-36 says.” Direct me in the path of your commands, for there I find delight. Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.” This has become my prayer. I long to find delight in Him and his Word and then allow Him to direct my paths. I must say that this is not always easy.

Charles Spurgeon once said, “It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.” I long to have the very essence of the Bible flow through me. I long to get to a place where I can say that I LOVE his law and that it is something I meditate on all day long.