Embracing God’s Commands

“Because I love your commands more than gold, more than pure gold, and because I consider all your precepts right, I hate every wrong path.  Psalm 119:127-128

 What’s your attitude towards God’s commands?
*Do you fear them?
*Do you resent them?
*Do you try to get away from them?

****That’s a foolish attitude.

  Remember, God gave His commands to us:
*Not to create problems for us but to solve them
*Not to harm us but to help us.

God Loves us and wants the Best from us–He calls us His Masterpiece!

God’s love is in His commands.
They are given to save us from ourselves, to save us from evil, to show us the way out of our difficulties and our problems.

But God’s commands are infinitely more precious and the psalmist had learned that.
Instead of running from God’s commands, resenting them, obeying them reluctantly, he said, “I love your commands more than pure gold.”

And then he said, “Because I consider all Your precepts right, I hate every wrong path.”

You see, when we love God’s commands and obey them; automatically they:

*Reveal to us what is wrong.
*They show us how to distinguish between good and evil, between what is beneficial and what is harmful.
*And when we are walking in the light of God’s commands, they keep us from everything harmful, from everything hurtful, from every wrong path.

*and we too experience God’s Love for us and in us.

“I acknowledged my sin to Thee, and my iniquity I did not hide; I said ‘ I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’; and Thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin.'”  Psalms 32:5

God’s 10 Commandments are our perfect loving Boundaries set by God.

“God’s statutes and commandments are my delight worth more than gold and silver and they give me understanding”.
“Secrets to a Blessed Life” lies in the Power of God’s Word-Jesus.(see John 1)

I’d like to challenge you to pray through Psalm 119.
This Psalm is an acrostic poem (each section correlates to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet) with 22 sections.

*Take one section a day.
*Read a verse, then pray that verse to God in your own words.
*If you do this from your heart, I believe you will begin to love God’s Word more than you ever have. (I can say this because I have done it.)

Psalms 119:33 Teach me, O Lord, the lifestyle prescribed by your statutes, so that I might observe it continually.  Amen