The psalmist of Psalm 119, like Ezekiel, Jeremiah and John understood the sweetness of God’s words to the heart of someone who belongs to Him!
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Category Archives: – Thru the Bible Series
We began this series on January 11, 2017 and continues to this day.
It chronicles our ongoing trek through the Bible beginning in Genesis, though our trek has not followed a 100% traditional order.
We have attempted to keep books whose contents are related in time, as much together as possible with some noteworth exceptions.
The specific chapters covered are NOT usually part of the title of each post making specific scriptures a little tricky to find by a simple “search”.
To compensate for that we have a page dedicated to this series which lists each of the scriptures we’ve covered so far as a link. It is our hope that this will help aid you in your studies….God Bless!
I belong to You!
These verses in chapter 119 cover the 9th through the 12th letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
Of course the primary theme is a focus upon the value and power of the word of God, His love and solicitous care of His Own and instruction to maintain our focus upon Him even in the face of adversity.
However, another theme seemed to surface in some of this psalmists musing which expressed not only an embracing of his humanity before His God, but a sense of belonging that took this notion even deeper and made it all the more tangible and endearing!
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Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things, revive me in Your way!
This segment of Psalm 119 covers verses 25-64 which corresponds to the Hebrew letters Dalet – Khet.
Key points include the power of God’s words to renew our hearts, drawing them away from lowly and earthly things to heavenly things which possess real intrinsic value.
A few of the pictographs associated with these letters do fit well with the content of their individual sections, but not all.
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The Intimate connection between God’s children & His word
Intimate
Personal
Relationally motivated
Lovingly Devoted
These words all represent the heart of this amazing psalmist.
The desire for godliness is genuine. The pursuit is non-trivial. The cry for God’s aid is urgent and sincere.
It would be very hard indeed for any real child of God to fail to see themselves in these verses. Great too are the personal lessons to be gleaned from this open heart that freely expresses his longing to become like God. This coupled together with the unfettered requirement of his heart that God HIMSELF be his aid and instructor.
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Cracking open the Methodical & Inspired Psalm 119
Thru the Bible: Psalms Book V – Chapters 117-119a
Psalm119 is very structured Psalm that is organized as an alphabetic acrostic, containing 22 sections or divisions (each associated with one of the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet) making a total of 176 verses.
Like so many languages of antiquity, the Hebrew alphabet was originally pictographic and these pictographs themselves carried meanings which when arranged into words could deepen the meaning of the text. The meaning associated with these pictographs have been preserved through generations and sometimes include both a literal and a spiritual meaning.
As we work our way through Psalm 119 we will attempt to see if or in what ways these pictographs which head each section bear upon the intended point and focus of the passage.
Tonight we only introduced Psalm 119 and covered its first division which is ‘aleph’ – the Hebrew letter roughly corresponding to the letter ‘A’ in English.
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