Guarding the Word

Yeah. Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Guarding the word. Thou art my portion, O Lord. I have said that I would keep thy words.

Psalm 119, 57. Three of the twenty-two stanzas of Psalm 119 have all eight Hebrew terms used to describe the Word of God. how appropriate it is that the central theme in these verses provides us succinct ways to keep or guard his word. Principally, our whole heart must be involved in seeking the favor of God. The great commandment rests on loving God with all our hearts.

If we seek God's blessings, both during our earthly life and in the eternity to come, we can trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Such a heart thinks or considers or reckons about the ways of God and turns. The godly life is not an unplanned life. The godly life seeks to understand and obey the words of God's Word, and the godly life makes haste and will not delay in keeping His commandments.

Circumstances may cause temporary difficulties in the life of a godly person, but he will not forget the laws of God. Rather, he will rise at midnight, the deepest time of trouble, to give thanks to our Lord because of thy righteous judgments. The one who wants to guard the word of God is a companion of those who fear God and keep the precepts of the word. The godly heart sees the mercy of the Lord everywhere and longs for the Creator of the ends of the earth to teach it the eternal statutes of His Word. May such an heart be ours as we seek to serve him.

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