Thursday, December 7, 2017

In your unfailing love preserve my life

Psalm 119:81-96
Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees. How long must your servant wait? When will you punish my persecutors?
In your unfailing love preserve my life, that I may obey the statutes of your mouth.
Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. Your faithfulness continues through all generations; Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.
To all perfection I see a limit, but your commands are boundless.
The will of God expressed in his teaching governs the psalmist's life-style and his conduct, gives him hope and peace, leads him into life and liberation. His confidence it is unboundary.
Why?
How long must your servant wait? God is the Lord, schedule and time are under authority of the Lord. Waiting is pain but it gives us practice the faith and trusted heart.
For God's unfailing love preserve my life so I may obey the word of God.
This world is limited, but God's word are boundless. His words is the way, the life and my salvation.
How?
Trust in the word of God, it can save my life.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees

Psalm 119:65-80
Do good to your servant according to your word, Lord. Teach me knowledge and good judgment, for I trust your commands.
It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees.
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.
May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant.
May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees, that I may not be put to shame.
Why?
Teach me knowledge and good judgment because we know nothing or we know part of the truth.
For I trust your commands,  according to your promise to your servant so I may pray to the Lord give me love and comfort.
Affliction is uncomfortable, but it may make me learn God's decrees. So everything I met should thanks God and pray to the Lord, for he is my hope.
How?
I will wholeheartedly follow God's word so that I may not be put to shame.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

In the night, Lord, I remember your name

Psalm 119:49-64
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.
In the nightLord, I remember your name,that I may keep your lawThis has been my practice: I obey your precepts.
You are my portion, Lord; I have promised to obey your words.
I am a friend to all who fear you, to all who follow your precepts.
Why?
Remember God's word day and night. It is easy to forget God when we are enjoy our joy after dinner.
Keep God's law and become my practice is good way to obey God's precepts.
You are my portion, all I have is your gift to me.
All who fear you are my friend, who are my brother and sister like family.
How?
Your decrees are the theme of my song wherever I lodge.




Monday, December 4, 2017

Turn my eyes away from worthless things

Psalm 119:33-48
Give me understanding, so that I may keep your law and obey it with all my heart.
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word.
May your unfailing love come to me, Lord, your salvation, according to your promise.
I will speak of your statutes before kings and will not be put to shame
Why?
I may keep the law of God is not foll or just the word, but meditated it and understanding the real meaning to me, let me can keep God's word forever.
We are easy focus on worthless things because of it fancy and beauty, pray to the Lord keep my eyes away from worthless thing.
Before the kings I will not fear speak God' s statutes for God's word is true and it will not be put to shame.
How?
I will speak of God's statutes before kings and others with truth and wisdom.

Sunday, December 3, 2017

Your satutes are my delight

Psalm 119:17-32
Psalmist pray to the Lord for he obey God's word, asked the Lord for God's word.
I am stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.
Your satutes are my delight; they are my counselors.
Cause me to understand the way of your precepts, that I may meditate on your wonderful deeds.
Chose the way of faithfulness, set my heart on your laws.
I hold fast to your statutes, Lord; do not let me be put to shame.
In the psalm we see how eagerly and persistently he applies himself to the task of understanding the law. He learns it by heart. He longs for more.
Why?
God's word is my way and my counselors. It let me know more about the Lord.
God's word let me meditate the wonderful things God has made.
God's word is my foundation of faith and way.
How?
Do my best and obey of the word of God in my life persistently.


Saturday, December 2, 2017

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless

Psalm 119:1-16
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Meditate in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. And meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
This is the longest psalm of all - and the most form; and elaborate in concept. There are 22 eight-verse sections. Each section begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and each verse within the section begins with the same letter.
Within this stylized pattern the psalmist makes a series of individual, though not isolated or disconnected, statements about the 'law' and the individual - interspersed with frequent prayers. He uses ten different words to describe it: God's la, his testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, ordinances, word, way, promises and judgments. And one or other of these descriptions occurs in all but a very few verses. He seems to have taken the same delight in the discipline set by this complex poetic form, as he did in the study of the law itself. True freedom is found through constraint, in both cases.
Why?
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, like Daniel, not one can found his fault in his way.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek God with all their heart.
Mediate God's way and his word and his way is the best way to keep our way pure.
How?
Living according to God's word and meditate God's word and what God has done to me!


Friday, December 1, 2017

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man

Psalm 117-118
The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me. He is my helper. I will look in triumph on my enemies.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in princes.
The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.
I will give you thanks , for you answered me; you have become my salvation.
The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
117:The psalmist calls all nations to praise the Lord. I his love and constant care for Israel he shows his purpose for every nation.
118:The hymn was sung in processing by king, priests and people. As they approach the Temple, the king recalls the victory won with God's help.
The procession, carrying branches, moves from the gateway to the altar.
Why?
The Lord has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes: The despise nation of Israel has become the great power. By Jesus' day Israel, in turn, had forfeited(沒收) their privilege position.
God is my helper, he is with me, so I will not be afraid.
God is my strength, my song and my salvation. God gives me faith so I have strength, I will praise to the Lord for he gives me triumph, God saves me in every situation.
How?
Give thanks to the Lord, trust in the Lord insted of man. God is my strength, my song and my salvation.