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Psalm 119: 73-80
Your hands made me and formed me;
give me understanding to learn your commands.
If I believe that God made me, he gave me owner's manual -the Bible, his word so that we can do maintenance. It seems that I do better care of my car then me. Help me to learn your law that can make me a well oiled machine.
In order to do this, I need God's help. God gives understanding to those who believe that God made us.
May those who fear you rejoice when they see me,
for I have put my hope in your word.
It seems that those who fear God welcome those who fear God.
How to fear God?
It is to put my hope in God's word. Jesus is the very word of God. May God help me to put my trust in Jesus who died for me and rose from the dead.
Where I put my hope?
Is it my ministry?
My children?
My wife?
My career?
I know that in theory that I must put my trust in Jesus' word. He forgave me my sins on the cross and rose from the dead. Why should I put my trust in other things? Why?
Knowing and believing in my heart are not the same thing.
I know, O LORD, that your laws are righteous,
and in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
How can we process our sufferings?
I met one student who broke a law and as a result, he was thrown in jail. He was afflicted. After getting out of the prison, he confessed that he prayed to God in prison and God heard his prayer. He thanked God for God's righteous law and his affliction on him.
God is faithful. He afflicts us faithfully so that we might come back to him.
May your unfailing love be my comfort,
according to your pr9mise to your servant.
God's love does not change at all. His love for his children do not change depend on what we do or how the weather is. So we can always come to God and receive his comfort.
God promised me that it is finished. I am a finished product, not a person in progress. But I do not see the good news of God. I try my best to improve myself but can I reach perfection by my own effort. I guess not.
Instead I must believe God's finished work. It is too good to believe.
Let your compassion come to me that I may live,
for your law is my delight.
When I look at God's law they absolutely convict me of my sins.
I am a dead man but how can I have delight in his law.
It is all possible by Jesus' death on the cross.
He bore all my sins. The law kills me but God's son saves me. So when I see God's law, I can see the need of Jesus' death on the cross. The law makes a highway to Jesus' cross.
May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause;
but I will meditate on your precepts.
God's law clearly says that there will be God's judgment. So the arrogant will have something coming.
May those who fear you turn to me,
those who understand your statutes.
May my heart be blameless toward your decrees,
that I may not be put to shame.
How can I be blameless?
I am full of blames. How can a man, full of blames be blameless?
It is all possible by looking at God's law that condemned Jesus in place of me.
God's word removes my shame. Guilty has to do with something I did wrong but shame has to do with how I look at myself.
In Genesis 1, man was naked but felt no shame. There was a perfect relationship between a husband and a wife and between us and God.
But we lost it when he rebelled against God (Gen 3). Jesus took away our shame by dying on the cross.
We can be naked before God and feels so shame.
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