The devotional - 1517 - Living Out the Word of God

The Devotional – 1517 – Living Out the Word of God.

Psalm 119:121-128 – I have done justice and righteousness; do not leave me to my oppressors. Be surety for Your servant for good; do not let the proud oppress me. My eyes fail from seeking Your salvation and Your righteous word. Deal with Your servant according to Your mercy, and teach me Your statutes. I am Your servant; give me understanding, that I may know Your testimonies. It is time for You to act, O Lord, For they have regarded Your law as void. Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold, yes, than fine gold! Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right; I hate every false way. 

Comments and Challenges: AIN

1.       121 – I have done what is JUST and Righteous, do not leave me to my oppressors

2.       122 – Ensure Your servant’s well-being, do not let the proud oppress me.

3.       123 – My eyes fail for looking for Your salvation, for Your Righteous WORD.

4.       124 – Deal with Your servant according to Your lovingkindness, teach me Your STATUTES.

5.       125 – I am Your servant. Give me understanding that I may know Your TESTIMONIES.

6.       126 – It is time to act YAHWEH, for they break Your LAW.

7.       127 – Therefore I love Your COMMANDMENTS, more than gold, yes, more than pure gold.

8.       128 – Therefore I consider all of Your PRECEPTS to be right, I hate every false way.

Looking briefly at the Strong’s Concordance and the word base “practice, practiced or practices” there is not one use of the word that is directed as honoring to the LORD, thus from this we should never “practice to be holy”. We are commanded to be holy and set apart for the gospel of God. Leviticus 11:44-45 and 1 Peter 1:16-17. The psalmist does not fearing that God has forgotten his just and righteous obedience, but he is calling out for the comfort that we all seek when being oppressed by those who are NOT HOLY. 

Psalm 119:122 by the way is the only verse in Psalm 119 where we would not find any of the special WORDS as used in all the other verses, such as; WORD, STATUTES, TESTIMONIES, LAW, COMMANDMENTS, PRECEPTS and JUDGMENTS. 

Oppression has caused the writer at this moment to feel as though he is forgotten. Psalm 22 also reveals an oppressive moment in prophesy and time in the future when “Jesus, the Son of the Living God made a similar inquiry or statement to the Living God. Comparing Psalm 119:121 and 122 with Psalm 22:1-11, also check out the very WORDS of Jesus in Matthew 27:46 saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Jesus and our writer here understand that they were not forsaken or forgotten but there are times in life when our physical eyes fail to see deliverance; this has nothing to do with the loss of being SAVED by the GRACE of God but it does have everything to do with TRUSTING God, even to the point of physical death. God’s WORD is Righteous all the time, revealing to you and me His moment by moment GRACE. Often we humanly fail to see as God sees. The LORD God sees you and me in “Living Grace, sustaining Grace and dying Grace” our desire is mostly wrapped up in sustaining grace. “LORD, get me though this one, will ya!”

When we see God at work in our lives, the joy of this is overwhelming; I for one can be so overwhelmed by the faith observation that I have seen the COMMANDMENT of the LORD in some event of my life play out. As the psalmist says; therefore I would rather run around in life with a bucket full of God’s PRECEPTS, than a pail full of gold. As the apostle Peter says in 1 Peter 1:7 – “that the genuineness of your FAITH, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.