Psalms 119:125 Get Your Story Straight

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Psalm. We get to dig around today in the fifth verse of the ION section of the 119th Psalm, which happens to be verse 125, and the idea of the letter ION being a vision and of doing, and of, you know, really what we're hoping for is God's vision, because we don't want the wrong vision for sure. And so the 125th verse would be the anointing, based on the template that we lay over this, of the Holy Spirit saying that this would be the knowledge of what an ION is. And so here, this is in English, it says, I am thy servant, give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies. And so it's just beautiful from my perspective in Hebrew, you know that the verse is going to start with an ION. And that idea of the word servant is that somebody is going to do as we've talked about throughout this ION is that doing and having this vision are along those same lines.

So a servant is going to be somebody who has obviously the master's vision. And so as we get God's vision, we need understanding in order to interpret what's going on that I may know thy testimonies. In other words, it's an interesting thing we teach at these boot camps we do with a masculine journey. The second talk we always give, we call the larger story to help people get some perspective on God's testimony, the story that he's telling the larger story is what this talk is actually called. And the reason it is, is because in our lives, quite often, we feel like we've come into a movie, you know, two hours late, or 15 minutes later, whatever we, it seems like there's bad guys, it seems like there's good guys.

But, you know, it's pretty hard to tell where this is going, and where do I fit in, and all that. And so, as we understand more and more of what God's story, what the what the actual narrative is, it helps us not only see the reason for so many things in our life, but also to see, you know, where we fit in, and essentially who the heroes are, and that kind of stuff, because we interpret life so much as a story. And so as God's servant, right, it helps a lot if we know the story and and how that all fits together in order to make this this work together.

So when it says, give me understanding that I may know, and I love that the word is Yada, that I that same idea of, you know, when you know something in Hebrew, you're become intimate with it. And so he's asking to be intimate with a testimony and and you know, that in the pilgrims progress that the hero, Christian, he had his testimony kept near his bosom. In other words, in order to interpret the story always to know that, that we are gods, he's got this. And I know that God's involved in this based on my own eyewitness. That's what a testimony is. And so this knowledge is critical, in my opinion, to having God's vision.

So as an example of how this might work out to the reverse side of what happens when we don't have the proper interpretation. Unfortunately, I it's kind of my first marriage would be an example because unfortunately my first wife and her family, my wife had had a drug addiction problem that I was not aware of when I married her, and had gotten involved with this young man and actually had three children by this man. And at first, they told me of none of these children. And then it came to turn out that one of these children, they would claim to me and told me was Debbie's son. But I didn't actually find out until Debbie had been institutionalized in a mental institute for the rest of her life, actually, as it would turned out, that I found out about the other two kids.

And so here, this was my life partner. And between Debbie and her family, nobody shared with me the story, right? What what had happened, how these children had been born. And so obviously, you know, not only did Debbie have the struggles that she had coming off the drugs, but and some of the other trauma that she'd gone through through that, but she now had the separation of two of her children that she couldn't even tell anybody were her children. And the stress of that on already, you know, somewhat broken mental capacity, you know, it'd been really helpful to know that was part of her story as her husband, right? And to be able to minister to her in so many ways, it breaks my heart now to think back what I, you know, what all that led to, as the way that that, that her life played out. But it was a matter of, right, she didn't feel safe, which, you know, I take responsibility for that, in other words, why she was afraid I would leave her if I knew stuff like that. And I wasn't a Christian at the time. And obviously, you know, I wasn't necessarily always looking at things the way that I should have been looking at them. But what I can see now, and I know God was at work through all of it, you know, because it all led to the testimony that I now have.

But what I know in my heart is that here was a poor woman who had three children that she couldn't mother and I can't even think of all the stresses that went into what was involved in that. So, you know, again, if we're going to be God's servant, we need an understanding. But in order to, you know, have the walls come down, so he can tell you what's going on, he's got to be able to trust you with the information. And so, you know, we have to declare that we are your servant, I mean, we do want your vision, we do, you know, if you love me, you'll keep my command, but we love you, Lord. So, you know, we're your servant, you know, share with us what's really going on so that we can really minister to the people in the situation. And I love the psalmist heart in this, and this is clearly some knowledge of an idea of what God's vision should be, that his servants would know his story. And the story is all through the Bible, but it's also in your own life and the way he's worked in your life and your family's life and your kid's life. In other words, the story continues to go on, the larger story, and he's the hero and finding our place in that story is one of the beautiful things that we get to do. And so, as we think about this verse, right, we are your servant, Lord, give us understanding that we may know intimately your testimonies. Thank you for listening.