Today, I’m sharing a few thoughts about two that caught my attention.
The first word was “promised.” The psalmist’s request was, “O LORD, give me the discerning mind you promised” (Psalm 119:169 NLT).
A person with discernment can judge clearly between two things. Biblically speaking, this would mean an ability to judge truth from error, good from evil, or the sacred from the profane.
When we’re reading God’s word and something seems to stand out or keep coming back to our mind, it’s like God is saying, “Consider my words now. Or, look what I’ve promised to do.”
Psalm 145:13 NLT says, “The LORD always keeps His promises.” I’m very thankful to serve a trustworthy God.
A word that puzzled me was “wandered.” Why would the writer of one hundred and seventy-six verses extolling the wonders and value of God’s word, say in the last verse, he wandered from it?
To me, “to wander” means to aimlessly move around. But then I thought, we can easily wander from God’s word when we don’t take it seriously.
We may read it regularly, and even know it intellectually. But if that’s all we do, we miss the point. God put His will in writing, and if we want to please Him, we’ll do more than just read it. We’ll choose to live by it.
There is a redeeming factor in that last verse. In total, the verse says: “I have wandered away like a lost sheep; come and find me, for I have not forgotten your commands” (V. 176 NLT).
The shepherd can hear the bleating of one lost sheep. If you’ve wandered and lost your way, call out to the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ, today.
God will never reject a repentant heart (Psalm 51:17).
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Scripture quotations marked NLT are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
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