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GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING
SATURDAY, MAY 25
Psalm 119:169-176
Ephesians 3:3-5
“… If ye continue in my word,
then are ye my disciples indeed.”
GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING
In Psalm 119:169-172, David prays for three things: that God would hear his prayer; give him understanding and deliverance. And praise is promised for answered prayers. Lips requesting favours become rejoicing lips. To praise God is the noblest employment of life, and one that glorifies Him.
In Psalm 119:173-175, David confesses that he could do nothing and is nothing of himself. First, he prays directly: “Let thine hand help me…” Second, there is the indirect plea: “… let thy judgments help me.” Having chosen God’s precepts to live by, and have them in his daily delight, his soul lives a new life, and his lips praise both God Himself and His Word, the twin sources of assistance in every time of need.
In Psalm 119:176, David closes his magnificent Psalm in deepest self-humiliation, begging to be sought out like a lost or perishing sheep.
The blessed truth to note is that although a straying sheep, David is still God’s servant, and as such he desires Him to seek him out, and bring him back to the fold. Had he been only a lost sheep he would not have prayed to be sought. But being also a servant he had the deep desire to pray for restoration, forgiveness, and taken into service again by his gracious Master.
In spite of his past and present failures, David presents a most forcible argument: “… I do not forget thy commandments.” With a loving memory of them, and a longing to know and obey them better, he knows that he is not utterly lost but is still under the Shepherd’s eye. He has left the King’s Highway for By-path meadow, but yearns to be back in full fellowship with the King.
Reader, are you yearning for the same thing?
(Herbert Lockyer)
THOUGHT: (Read Psalm 119:169.)
PRAYER: (Use Psalm 119:170.)