Sunday – Poetry

Reading – Psalm 119

Highlight Verse:

“I will walk in freedom, for I have devoted myself to your commandments.”
‭‭Psalms‬ ‭119‬:‭45‬ ‭NLT‬‬

Yes, I know it is a long reading today. I almost broke it into multiple days. Maybe I should have.

There are so many good points made in this, the longest Psalm.

The main point of the Psalm is that God’s Word is good, so I want to follow it.

It is an acrostic Psalm, so each section starts with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Each of those sections says something about God’s Word.

Why?

The reasons given in this Psalm are many.

Trusting God’s Word brings joy, purity, peace, blessings, and so on.

The one aspect that stood out to me is freedom.

I have heard people say that they ran from God because they wanted freedom.

But true freedom is found in obeying God’s Word.

We were all born as slaves to sin.

But God designed us.

He knows more about us than we know ourselves.

So, like every good maker, He gave us an owner’s manual.

It’s full of tips for making our lives run in the best possible way.

When we ignore the owner’s manual, we tend to mess up our lives physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

When we trust the manual and do what it says, our lives work much more efficiently.

In essence, when we obey God’s Word, we are freed from the major malfunctions of life.

How has living in obedience to God’s Word brought you freedom?
Where has disobeying God’s Word brought you troubles?