Continuing in Psalm 119
(Quotes other than Scripture are by Spurgeon and personalized by me)
78 LET THE PROUD BE ASHAMED; FOR THEY DEALT PERVERSELY WITH ME WITHOUT A CAUSE: BUT I WILL MEDITATE IN THY PRECEPTS.
Lord, You have been showing me what a wicked thing it is to be "wise in MY own eyes." Please do the same for those who have "dealt perversely with me..."
But... I will MEDITATE in thy precepts....Yes, when I am misunderstood because of this illness, it drives me to You and Your Word! ...... May I continually find JOY in meditation, for therein do I find TRUTH and LIFE and ANSWERS, because there I find YOU! O Lord, when prayer and meditation in Your Word begin to "slip" in my life, I find that I have no strength to walk in PEACE, and I become easily irritated and frustrated. So ...Lord, please...please provide a way so that these two things will NEVER fade away!
79 LET THOSE THAT FEAR THEE TURN UNTO ME, AND THOSE THAT HAVE KNOWN
THY TESTIMONIES.
Yes, Lord, this is the cry of my heart! Those that have known thy grace, those who have a testimony to share, those that follow "hard" and "hunger and thirst" after You, those who have found in You a "Treasure Chest of Holy Joy"*...let these come my way!!!
80 LET MY HEART BE SOUND IN THY STATUES: THAT I BE NOT ASHAMED.
" If the heart be sound in obedience to You, all is well...Mere profession will fail...only sincerity and truth will endure in the evil day. He who is right at HEART has no reason for shame...." O Lord, may my HEART be right with You. (I do not want to be a hypocrite.) Let the depths of my inner being be guided by Your law. May I not have a superficial acquaintance with it, but may my innermost being - my feelings, my will, my intellect - be guided by Your law! May I be entire, upright, and whole because of thy "divine appointments" with Your Word, that I might not be ashamed on the Judgment Day! Amen!
*Quote by Dr. John Piper
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