Psalm 119:9-19, 37
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me. 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
What does it mean when it says “not sin,” in the 11th verse? Not go against, not talk negative, not being a headache, not being a bother, not being anything that tells God that you are going to be a whining and complaining saint; “not going against Your ways Lord.” When you sin against the Word of God, you go against God. We don’t really see the things we do, but we don’t really understand, if we sin against God, we sin against His Word.
What is vanity in verse 37? Your lifestyle; your mind’s concepts that aren’t God like can be vanity. It does not always have to be how you perceive yourself as you look in the mirror. Do you realize that when God is telling you to behold what you see is who you are, don’t try to give your own thoughts of what you perceive it to be, but tell it like it really is. God does not want you to psychoanalyze what He is saying. You have eyes, but you can’t see what you’re looking at. You are using your own wisdom to interpret what He says. We must get in God’s brain to know what he says. Getting in God’s brain is reading His Word.
We should not be wise in our own eyes. Don’t think that you know about all things or when someone ask you anything you have the answer for it because, it will lead you down the path of self-righteousness. You use your eyes to see everything; to find the path, to send messages to record daily events for your brain to store, its like an information camera. If God gave you eyes, and you look at something, let them be led by the Spirit and anointing of God, not your flesh. Don’t look at all things from your own understanding, but look at them through the Word of God. The Spirit of God you serve is in your heart! “Thy word have I hid in my heart…” What kind of spirit do you have? An over coming or a resistant, doubtful, unsure spirit? God wants you to open your eyes, perceive the situation with the knowledge that God can change it.
God says, if I brought you through this situation, then I will bring you through another situation. Through that situation God will teach you something. Don’t look at a situation through your own knowledge. God will give you victory over you, if you will let God order you steps. If you keep ordering your own steps God can’t help you in your walk. When you don’t see what God is trying to show you, then you become blind to the real truth, and when you become blind, the only thing you can perceive is negativity. Sin has us, and we don’t even realize. We are actually grabbing for sin. But we should say “God whatever You say, is what I’ll do.” Your trials will not be easy but Jesus’ burden is easy and His yoke is light. When you look through the eyes of flesh and not those of God, you perceive the danger instead of the victory, the trial instead of its completion. God is trying to pull you into the realms of what He will do, and you are putting Him in the realms of what you think He could do. He said we can do all things through Christ which strengthen us. He will not put anymore on us than we can bare.
Do you need something to satisfy you? We walk not by sight but by faith, so believe even when you can’t see the victory, seeing what He wants us to see and not what we want to see.
Matthew 13:1-7
The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea side. And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore. And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow; And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up: Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth: and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away. And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them:
Verse 7- No foundation…when they came up for a test of the word that was in them, that they hid in their heart, it was found there was nothing in their heart! Because they didn’t not have that deep word, that word that was to the bone, they could not stand when a test came up to give an account of who and what they were.
Matthew 13:8-23
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. Hear ye therefore the parable of the sower. When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side. But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful. But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Just like any child, God wants us to go through our tests, whatever they might be to us. He wants us to find out what we are, then we will understand what we mean to Him. Does my test have to look like your test because you’re perceiving my test to be hard? What’s a test? Anything that causes you to stress about your connection with God; what we go through to find out what God says about us.
Is your life built on a solid foundation; the mercies and love of God; are your surroundings such that they are choking you out spiritually? Are you even aware that you are being choked out; are you walking haphazardly through your walk not really getting anything out of it? Are you so locked up with things that need to come to you in a preconceived way, when they may come differently? God’s ways are not like our, His order is not like man’s.
We all know what we go through in our walk; misguided, everything not being clear, not knowing if we’re in tests…Tests are what we have to look forward to in our walk. What’s a test for me? Look at what God is trying to pull you through. Being aware of a calculus formula and not how to use it are two different things. To know what the Word of God says, and being able to apply it to your walk are two different things.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Having an understanding of the Word of God is wisdom; knowing how to apply it to your life is God’s wisdom.
