What a week to begin Psalm 119:25-32! I'm traveling this week to Las Vegas for a business convention. God is so good to me, so gracious... I've been able to spend 4 hours straight in the word! I'm sitting on the plane right now writing this "offline" to later place the text into the blog and my heart is just aching for Him. I long to see Him more today than I ever have. I have a renewed desire to protect my eyes, my mind, my thoughts, my desires for Him. To love my wife more than I ever have and to stand in awe of what he is doing in the lives of my kids. I can't help but wonder if this renewed strength is just to get me through the trip safely and without the stain of sin. I sense this often when I travel... more aware of Him... more fear of hurting Him and losing the fellowship of His presence. I really desire to see sin the way He does... to hate it more and to know how to expose it and minister to those trapped in it. Sin is in the hearts of the people sitting on this plane... not in the location that they "indulge their desires in". They only call Vegas "Sin City" because what is in a wicked heart is truly brought out in the open, but truthfully that can be said about any town in America today.
On to Psalm 119:25-32... After reading it several times I can tell there is a lot here!! I'll start at the end and work backwards:
- That God will enlarge my heart (vs 32)
- That He will Remove the false way from me (vs. 29)
These verses jumped out the most to me in my first read. In 2 Corinthians 6:11-13 the main thing that hinders someone from truly hearing and learning and growing are there "affection's". The "False Way's" within them. (119:29) The appetites and desires for anything other than God... simply "idols" (2 Timothy 3:2-5). We have so much sin in our nature and so many idols before our eyes that we blindly chase after the wrong things and think we are OK. What we need is a huge appetite for God and a heart that has the capacity to hear and see Him.
To obtain this we need to be brought to dust (spiritually - 119:25,28) and revived according to His word - spending the rest of our life removing the "False way's from us" and choosing His way's over our own (119:30-31); Holding on to His testimonies and truth...meditating on Him and allowing Him to enlarge our heart for more of Him. (119:27,31-32) Does this sound like a road you are on?
119:5 Oh that my ways may be established to keep Thy statutes!
Remember... it's all about the heart and the direction it casts its desires.
-scott
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What I got out of Psalm 119:30 is when he says,"I have put your ordinances BEFORE ME" I thought,"Christ should be number one in everything we do"
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