Psalms 119:66- Good Judgement

Hidden treasures of the 119th Psalm.

We are having a good time in the good verses. In the Tet section, as you may know, the letter Tet has to do with Tav, which is goodness, and so it's all about goodness here in the next eight verses. As we started the last episode with the first in the Tet section, which was verse 65, today we get to dig around in the goodness of verse 66.

And as we've talked about, the Isaiah 11 kind of template that we're laying over these are the seven anointings, or the seven different aspects of each of these letters that it would appear the psalmist is using. So if we looked at yesterday's being the wisdom of the letter Tet, of this idea, then today would be the understanding. And I think you'll see that completely in the verse that we have here.

So the 66th verse, I love it. It says, Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I have believed thy commandments. So it's absolutely, once again, as all the verses will start with this letter Tet, the idea of teach in so many different ways has to do with that letter Tet, because there's certainly a lot of goodness in that. And one of the neat things about the word judgment, and of course we see that judgment's one of the 10 words in the PDF that I shared at the very beginning before we even got into the verses, the 10 words that are repeated time and time again, one of those is the judgments. Well, inside of that word judgment is this letter Tet, which speaks to the idea, which I love it, of good judgment. Because when you look at judgment from a biblical standpoint, what you're looking for is the goodness. You're looking for the hidden thing that would be good. And so many times we're put into a situation where it seems like there's no good alternative. Well, that's where judgment comes in, is we're trying to find the good way.

And so it's fascinating to me. I remember going to my first boot camp, Masculine Journey boot camp, and we were talking about how to really love on your wife. And one of the things that they taught that just I've never forgotten was to try to determine your spouse's glory. In other words, how do they reflect God? What's the what's the something in them that looks like their secret sauce?

You know, they're to all be Patty's special sauce, something that is just very unique about your spouse. It really seems to be a gift that God gave them. And wow, if you can see that and call that out, in other words, you're looking for the really, really good thing in your spouse. And then bringing that out, it's pretty easy to find the bad in somebody is that famous quote from Abraham Lincoln. If you look for the bad and human kind, you know, you'll surely find it.

Well, it's the same thing that if you really, really look for the good in somebody, even if they appear to be struggling and call that out, that is, they begin to walk in their calling and how God made them. I mean, it's a beautiful thing to have good judgment, right? It's just absolutely neat that that's almost here in this high idea of goodness. And this idea of the Tet is telling us, if you understand this, then you're going to be looking for the good and good knowledge. Because as he says, teach me good judgment and good knowledge.

There's so much bad stuff we could be learning. But oh, my goodness, to learn this knowledge again is it's one of the anointings that we'll get to later. But it's absolutely beautiful that here we have these connected to the concept of good. And then, you know, how cool is it that it's the reason that he says that is for I have believed by commandments. In other words, if you believe that you're going to love your neighbor as yourself, then you're going to need good judgment.

You're going to need good knowledge or or if you believe, you know, all these different what they call myths for these good deeds. You know, I'm going to glean I'm not on the edges of my field like Bo has had good judgment, didn't he? I mean, he found the good thing, how wonderful it is. And that's, you know, of course, David's grandfather. So, I mean, clearly his dad had good judgment. In other words, he he he he saw the good as he was doing his commandment. In other words, this commandment that you, you know, leave this for the poor. And he saw the whole picture and you can see how that applied in his life.

Right. And so when I think about, you know, if I believe the commandment, you know, love your your your wife as as Christ loved the church. Well, that's what Christ is trying to do for me, what I'm trying to do for my wife. So when I came home from that boot camp, I couldn't help but know that, gee, you know, my my wife loves to hold babies. She loves little children. And so when we were you may have heard me say this before, before I was teaching in special needs, my wife was in the nursery holding the baby. She she loves to nurture people. And so it was interesting. I came home from that boot camp. I was asking Tammy as my kids were getting a little bit older.

Had you ever thought about working in a daycare? And when I said that, I mean, her eyes lit up like it was a Christmas tree. Really? Like, you know, just to be able to be around children every single day and nurture them and whatever. That was just like that's exactly where she reflected God's glory. Right. Right there. And so it's it was fascinating to me that I could spot something in my wife and then allow her to walk in that and see the joy that it brought her heart.

And so, of course, you know, later, as you know, you've got perpetual children when it comes to special needs of, you know, folks with autism and down syndrome and those kind of things. You know, we get a chance to work with those guys every week. Well, you can see that that's my wife's glory. I mean, it just clearly is. And so what I mean, what a neat prayer the psalmist asked for in this goodness. I mean, it's a really good deal where he says, teach me good judgment and good knowledge, because I believe your commandments. I mean, it's just a beautiful thing. And I'm so grateful that you had the good judgment to listen to this today. Share it with me. And I pray that God will continue to show you the good things that those of us who believe his commandments will have an opportunity to reflect him in our lives. Thanks again for listening.