Hidden Treasures of Psalms 119: Verse 47 - Delighting in - No Payback

Hidden Treasures of the 119th Song. So, digging around in verse 47 today, we are a bit challenged, honestly, as I look at this verse, not to understand it, but to apply it. And there are so many things that enter into understanding this. I feel like for me, anyway, as I will just, you know, read the verse and keep in mind, of course, we are in the vav section, and there's more and there's more, and certainly we got more today. And, you know, the idea that these things are building on one another. So, the idea that it's the Hebrew letter vav, which is looks like Jacob's ladder, it's just a straight line that comes down. And it's really, really cool all that it means.

We'll get into more when we get into that. But it's critical that we get here, because as we lay down sort of a template over the 119th Psalm to go, okay, there's eight verses, and, you know, we got to get to the point where we're looking at why is this eight? And I really, when I looked at it, and I've studied it and studied it more, I see that Isaiah 11, the seven spirits that are the anointing of Christ, which would be the anointing of these letters, because every letter is Christ, line up perfectly with the matrix of this Psalm. And so when we get to this particular verse, it becomes extremely helpful. So, I studied Isaiah 11 a lot, a lot, a lot, and it's simply, just to go over that, it's simply saying that, you know, Jesus is going to be anointed with these seven spirits, which are wisdom and understanding, counsel, might, knowledge, fear of the Lord, and a delight in the fear of the Lord. So yesterday's verse being the sixth was the, you know, just plain fear of the Lord, but today we get to delight in the fear of the Lord.

And so here we will see how this works out, because when you read verse 47, it says, and I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved. Okay. So, sounds easy enough to understand that you're going to delight yourself in these mitzvah, which are, you know, the word for commandments. And so some of those, I'm with you. It's not hard for me to delight in, you know, celebrating Passover, you know, or it's not hard for me to delight when I get to help somebody out like a lot of the mitzvahs are, but the other ones that are a bit challenging.

Okay. So it's really helpful to me to go, okay, somehow or another, I'm going to delight myself in the fear of the Lord here, meaning that God is bigger than anything I can possibly imagine. And so what he is explaining to me is showing me how to do life. And if I can get to the point where I just trust him to the point that I delight in some of these commandments, I can get there. And the challenging one to me, when I look at it, and clearly Jesus had me right here this morning, when I opened up my Bible, it turned right to Leviticus 19, 18. And I think so many times, you know, we quote that Leviticus 19, 18, just the bottom part of it, which is love thy neighbor as thyself. But the real challenge in the verse, to me, you know, that sounds easy, but it's the beginning of Leviticus 19, 18, which reads, Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself. I am the Lord. That's the whole verse.

That's the whole verse. So, you know, when somebody cuts you off in traffic, you know, you immediately want to teach them a lesson or, you know, there's so many different ways that, you know, that we want to avenge or bear a grudge. And unfortunately, this gets really, really close to home. Now, somehow or another, we're supposed to delight, which, you know, that's kind of a challenge.

I'm going to delight in not bearing a grudge, I'm going to delight in not wanting to avenge. And it sounds, you know, like, okay, well, you can do that. Well, let me just show you how up and close and personal this is for me. Maybe you've got it.

I really struggle here. I'm going to be honest, I really struggle to trust the Lord to the point where I can get to where I can delight in this kind of commandment. And I know the commandment, so it's not a matter of knowing.

It's a matter of delighting or trusting to the point that I would actually delight. So I actually have someone in my own household that lives with us that really, really hurt my wife, I mean, over the years in so many different ways. And so, yeah, I got these grudges that really seemed I want to hold on to.

And the challenge is not only did they hurt my wife when she was young, that, you know, they continue to belittle and hurt and, and do things that are just very difficult for me to process. So, you know, this is the way this works out for me practically, like my, my flesh just wants revenge. It just does. And so when this person wants me to go get the mail, somehow or another, unfortunately, rather than me delighting and going getting the mail and not holding a grudge and loving my neighbor as myself, I seem to delight in not getting the mail, right?

You know, if, if I know this person loves it when I mow the backyard, the backyard doesn't get mowed near as much. It's sad. It's sad that, that I, but not only, not only do am I holding the grudge and I know it, and I know that that's why Jesus had me here at this particular commandment today, was let's, let's just take a look at this and just go, okay, for me to delight in this commandment, it clearly is supernatural. You know, and so I love King David s Prayer.

You know, I will delight. In other words, God, I've got to give this to you somehow. This is not something I can do in my own strength. This isn't something I can do on my own.

I need your help. Help me to give you this grudge. Help me to give you this desire to avenge.

Help me to get to the place where I just delight. I know you're going to make all this right in the end. You know, and the neat thing about this being in the above section for me, when you, when you, when you look at the beginning of it, right, it says, let thy mercies come also to me under even thy salvation. In other words, I've been forgiven so much, right? God has done all this stuff for me.

What am I doing? Holding onto grudges and wanting to avenge. And so the beauty of it is, is, is, is like the Lord's Prayer. Like, help me to forgive as I've been forgiven.

And clearly that's what's happened. And obviously I can't just put up with abusive behavior for my wife, but help me to do this in a loving way. Like, this is a real interesting, you know, God type of situation where there's not out of my mind. It's part of my journey and the way that He is going to teach me how to delight, right? And this is my prayer that I would delight in this commandment, not to avenge, not to hold a grudge.

And I would certainly delight if my kids could get there and everybody I know to get there, right? And love thy neighbor as thyself. What a beautiful thing. Oh, it's challenging. It's challenging for me. But nonetheless, I love, love, love how the Word of God comes together. Isaiah 11, these anointings of this letter, understanding where King David is going here with this, is that he, he is wanting the Holy Spirit to help him, right? We need it. We need it. And I'm so thankful that they're there and I can pray this kind of prayer in the way King David understood that there was so much that I am trying to get done on my own strength. King David knew his only chance and my only chance, right, is gone. Thanks for listening.