I Will Study Your Commandments

Psalms 119:15-16 NLT
“I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways. I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word.”

It’s amazing to me how differently we see God’s Word’s.

One person can read a scripture and it will not affect them because they don’t allow His Words to permeate their heart and Spirit. Another person can read the same scripture and God’s Words will change their lives from the inside out, forever!

Verse 15 continues by saying; “(I will) reflect on your ways.” This suggests, thinking, pondering, and meditating on God’s Word’s. That is extremely important in studying God’s Word’s. Meditating means thinking it over, how it applies to your life, what motivations need to happen to align with the scripture.

The next verse suggests finding delight in God’s word. Let me give a few suggestions. Start out with the Psalms, these are words of wisdom and things that David and others have encountered in their lives. You will find in most passages of Psalms nuggets of gold so-to-speak. Words that will speak to you, relate to you or encourage you.

David found himself angry, sad, and depressed but he never stayed there. He would most often go right back to praising God with elaborate rhythms of praise. In other chapters you will just read David’s songs of exuberant praise to God.

Proverbs offers 31 chapters of proverbs and sayings from the pen of Solomon. He is considered the wisest man who ever lived. The last part of verse 16 promotes memorization of God’s Words, this scares off most people but when you find some passages that you like, repeat them often. Read them, speak them, pray them to God, you will eventually realize you have committed them to memory.

Prayer:
Father, Your words have brought me through rough nights, battles not a few, and days that almost seemed hopeless. Oh how I love Your Words! They are life and a well spring of wisdom to my soul!