Psalms 119:153 The Wisdom of Choice

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Song Fun, fun, fun now. Fun, we get to switch to the race today. We've been steady in the kuff and it's so beautifully as we talked about the kuff is this idea of closeness to God in both time and space and just what a cool thing we've had a chance to do. And as we get closer to God, then all of a sudden it really helps us out with our race. So the letter race, um, the Jews would tell you it means false because it has to do with the head, but it also has to do with your chooser. And so, you know, we all are making choices constantly and no doubtably we make those choices with our head. The letter race has everything to do with choices. And so he's actually, as he begins this wisdom verse, when we look at the wisdom of the letter race, you can see he's asking God to make a choice, which is kind of a brilliant idea.

And we're going to back into this kind of, but first we'll just give it to you in English. It's verse 153, the first verse in the race section, which would be the wisdom anointing of the letter race. And so here we go. Consider mine affliction and deliver me for I do not forget thy law.

In other words, that consider mine. He's asking God to choose, you know, to deliver him. Um, and the reason for that is that he does not forget. And that word forget is probably, um, it has to do with not caring. Like I, it's not just forgetting about it. It's like, I don't care anything about that law.

And, and that's the real challenge with it. Um, it has that, that letter hoof in it, which has to do with this strong desire is not there for the law that we're supposed to have. And so he's saying, I do have this strong desire for thy law. And because of that, you know, deliver me from my affliction. And so the neat thing about if you've ever been delivered from an affliction, I mean, it may feel like you were delivered.

From the fire, but actually you're usually delivered in the fire. So it's kind of a neat thing that in, in, in so many different cases, it's as of the law itself, if we just could get a grip on who God is by growing closer to him, if we would choose God, in other words, if we would use our choosing ability to pursue the Torah to pursue pursue God's word, which is essentially to pursue Jesus. If we choose to seek him, then, you know, to be in his presence is fullness of joy. Right. And, and, and so when you're in his presence, it's like, where's your accusers, Robbie?

They're not here. Right. And so if we're truly, truly seeking to the point that we can get in his presence, like we talked about in the cuff section, then we're going to be delivered. I mean, we're delivered immediately, emotionally, if nothing else, because we know that, Hey, Jesus is not condemning us.

Right. If we're in Christ and we've accepted him and our, the main idea of choosing God is, is what we're really talking about here. But then the other thing, you know, that if you look in the 16th Psalm, I believe it's a fourth verse. It says, the sorrows of those who chase after other gods will be greatly multiplied.

Yeah. You know, there again, if you choose, if you, you know, if you take your little choose or your race and you choose to pursue some other God, well, your sorrows are going to be greatly multiplied. So as soon as you turn back and you, and you repent and you turn back towards God, well, what happens is your sorrows are going to begin to become less and less, even though the situation may be as bad as it ever once ever was. And the meantime, I get a letter from the justice department the other day saying that they're, you know, that I still owe them $400,000 on some debt that actually I thought was totally settled, uh, two or three years ago. I have other debt that I'm paying on, but this one they're bringing up again.

Like I haven't been paying on it and they're threatening all sorts of things like garnishment, whatever. If I don't do something here. So, you know, I have a wonderful attorney helped me get through it the first time because, you know, they, there's a lot of illegal things that are going on with the process, but they're the justice department.

So what are you going to do? So anyway, it's, it's extremely stressful to some level, except if I go back into this and realize, wow, you know, you know, we, we studied several verses in here that can help us. Like we know that Lord in faithfulness, thou has afflicted us. Um, you know, these things are in our life in order to cause us to do things.

And mostly what they're there to cause us to do is to repent and turn back towards God. Because as I do, Ryan, and I just know, I know partially because of my memorization of all these verses is I know God that your judgments are good. I know that in faithfulness, whatever affliction I've got coming is. And I know as I draw closer to him, if I choose him, I'm delivered because I'm healed. I'm healed financially. I'm healed emotionally. I'm healed physically.

You know, as soon as Jesus comes, you know, that'd be that much better. But as I move closer to God, I get all these healings. Right. And hopefully I make better choices with my money or and all these things. And ultimately, I just trust God. And if I trust God, there's no anxiety. Right. In his presence is fullness of joy.

And so I know it's really hard for me to think about that, you know, five years ago, six years ago, as I've faced some of these afflictions that I got myself into, um, you know, they were, they would wear me out. But as I move closer, and especially through our study of this song, which I'm so grateful for all of you walking with me through this, is that I become more I get a more in depth understanding that all his judgments are good. And this thing is working out. And I know that in rate, you know, that what's happening is right. And I know that he is going to quicken me. I know that he is going to make me alive through all this. And I know that in his presence is fullness of joy. And I know that God's Word, if I push into Jesus, right, and see how good he is, and how loving he is, and whatever, I'm immediately delivered. And again, if I can stay there, to whatever extent, then he can show me the better choices, the other things I need to do with my chooser, in order to follow him on the way out of my situation, whatever that may be. So thank you for studying this verse. And again, the wisdom of the race is such a fun letter. We're going to spend eight verses in studying it. It's going to be a blast.