If you’ve been with me since the beginning of our reading plan, this will be our ninth time through this Psalm. As I mentioned before, I have set a goal to memorize the entire Psalm. My initial plan was to memorize eight verses a week, which would be one section every week. While the first eight verses went smoothly, these second eight – not so much. But I’ll keep at it. I hope you are doing it with me!
Can you imagine being so thirsty and hungry for the word of God that you would write a psalm like this? The psalmist knew how dependent he was on God’s word to live an obedient life. Do we? In all honesty, for quite a while in my life I couldn’t get enough of Scripture – reading, studying, meditating on it, memorizing it. But then there have been valleys where I have done just enough to say that I did it, but my heart wasn’t in it all the time. We all go through those times.
Making it a point to read this psalm every week and holding myself accountable to resolve to journal every day from the reading plan has helped me to be reminded of how much I love the word of God. The depths of it can never be fully discovered, and there is always more to learn about our holy, gracious, loving, and merciful Lord. We find strength, wisdom, comfort, encouragement, admonishment, and rebuke in it. The writer of Hebrews tells us,
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
My deepest desire is to grow in my love for the Lord – to grow in faith, trust, and obedience. And one of the best ways I can increase that desire and to grow in those things is to immerse myself in his word. I don’t know if anyone else reads these posts or how often anyone does. But if you are reading this right now, my prayer is that you would have this same desire and that together we can spur one another on.
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