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Obedience to the Law of the Lord
Psalm 119.9-16
Good News Translation (GNT)
9 How can young people keep their lives pure?
By obeying your commands.
10 With all my heart I try to serve you; keep me
from disobeying your commandments.
11 I keep your law in my heart, so that I will not
sin against you.
12 I praise you, O Lord; teach me your ways.
13 I will repeat aloud all the laws you have given.
14 I delight in following your commands more
than in having great wealth.
15 I study your instructions; I examine your
teachings.
16 I take pleasure in your laws; your commands
I will not forget.
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Commentary taken from 'word-on-the-web'
supplied by Scripture Union
'To offer a life fully focused on God's Word'
Poets have often set themselves demanding tasks,
such as writing sonnets,
in order to express their love
and devotion to their beloved.
Psalm 119 is like that.
It is clear that the writer
is not offering fancy phrases to God.
Rather, he wants to offer a life
fully focused on God's Word
and obedience to it.
The Word of God is his best hope
of living the kind of life that
he desperately longs for,
a life that pleases God.
We are called to follow the Lord,
walking in his ways,
rejoicing in doing his will,
playing our part in making a better world.
This psalm is a very long hymn,
praising the law of the Lord,
and at the same time
it's a prayer that we will seek to learn
and inwardly digest all his precepts
and commands so that
we are obedient disciples
in every part of our lives.
How do new Christians learn
to make judgements about right and wrong,
good and bad?
Which commands, what laws,
where do I find them?
The first answer is that we need
to know our Bibles well enough
to extract guidance
on the whole range of issues
that come up in daily life;
medical ethics,
use of money, environmental issues,
sex and marriage, and much more.
The Bible is so rich and glorious
in the way it teaches us -
lists of virtues, laws and proverbs,
parables and prophetic challenge.
It is not a manual of maintenance,
a list of dos and don'ts.
The Lord expects us to think things through,
to work out what texts mean,
to ask whether new contexts
change the meaning.
We are told, for example,
not to reap to the edges of our fields,
but to leave the gleanings for the poor and the alien (Leviticus 19:9,10).
Sounds good, but how do we apply it to our resources today?
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