He Teaches Me: Psalm 119:97-104

Today's passage is all about God's law, and how (according to my study notes), "meditation on God's revelation yields the highest wisdom."  Here is the passage:

⁹⁷ Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long.
⁹⁸ Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.
⁹⁹ I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes.
¹⁰⁰ I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts.
¹⁰¹ I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word.
¹⁰² I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me.
¹⁰³ How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
¹⁰⁴ I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.


I think this passage points out how wonderful and all-surpassing the wisdom of God is.  Oddly enough, in the song that was playing on my iTunes as I typed that last sentence, "Have You Not Known?", I heard this phrase: "His knowledge is unsearchable, his wisdom strong and sure."  Coincidence?  I think not!  Romans 11:33  says, "Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!  How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!"


Another wonderful thing about God's wisdom is that he imparts it to us also, though his word.  This passage of Psalm 119 says that when we meditate on God's law, it makes us wiser than all our enemies, gives us more insight than any human teacher, more understanding then our experienced elders.  Why should we not then desire to learn and follow God's law?


I do have the desire; it is the carrying out of God's will that I have trouble with sometimes.  But I know that God has patience with me, and I can say with the Psalmist, "I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me."


Today I am going to listen to God's teaching and learn from him.