"Your commandments are my counselors;
your word is my light and delight!"
~ Psalms 119:24 TPT
"Your commandments are my counselors."
God's Word is truth. It is our counselor. If you think about what a counselor is, it is a person that is trained to give guidance on personal, social, or psychological problems. God's Word, His commands, are our counselor.
The purpose of a counselor is to aid people in achieving a better quality of life by guiding people to solutions of different problems. This is exactly what the Word of God does. When we lean on God and His commands, He leads us down the right path. And when we obey God and live for Him, He gives us abundantly more than we can ever think or ask. He helps us through every situation, and life with Him is way better than anything we can ever imagine.
As a Christian, God's Word is something we should be living by.
"Your word is my light..."
If we do not spend time in God's Word, if we do not learn God's commands, we will be prone to fall.
Think of His Word as a flashlight. Imagine you are walking in the woods (or somewhere else that is very dark). With a flashlight, you can see the things around you, and you are able to prevent yourself from tripping and falling. You can see the tree right next to you or the roots underneath you, but you will not fall. However, without a flashlight, you are way more likely to stumble over that tree root because you are unable to see a thing. That is what the Word is like. The Word is our light, it is our flashlight. Without it, we fall. We stumble. We won't have anyone to hold us up. But, with God's Word, through spending time with God, we will not fail. We will not stumble because God is steadfast and He is our light.
We should be desiring God's Word.
"Your word is my... delight."
God's Word is something we should treasure. We should delight in it because it is worth more than anything else.
"The words you speak to me are worth more
than all the riches and wealth in the whole world!"
~ Psalms 119:72 TPT
I feel like it is easy to take the Bible for granted. I mean, most of us probably have multiple copies of the Bible at home (I know I do). However, there are some places in this world where it is unlikely for a person to have a Bible.
In the book The Heavenly Man, "Brother Yun tells this story: After his conversion as a young man, he found out about the Bible. He did not have one. He did not know anyone who had one. Bibles were scarce in China in those days. He was so hungry for the Bible. His mother had heard of an old man in another village who had been a pastor. They went to visit him. The old man told him to pray for a Bible. So, day after day, he knelt down with one simple prayer, 'Lord, please give me a Bible. Amen.' After a month nothing happened, so he went back to the old man's house and this time the pastor told him he needed to fast and weep for a Bible. So for the next 100 days, he fasted morning and noon and ate a little bit in the evening, weeping and praying for a Bible. Still no Bible. Then one morning at 4 a.m., he received a vivid vision in which two men give him a Bible. The vision was so real that he got up in the middle of the night and began looking for a Bible in the house. Not finding it he began weeping loudly and woke his parents. His parents rushed in to see what was wrong and they wept with him. Just at that desperate moment, they heard a faint knock at the door. He answers it and there are two strangers at the door, the same two men that he had just seen in his vision. They gave him a bag containing a Bible. In his own words, he wrote: 'My heart raced as I opened the bag and held in my hands my very own Bible! The two men quickly departed into the still darkness. I clutched my new Bible to my heart and fell down on my knees outside the door. I thanked God again and again! I promised Jesus that from that moment I would devour His Word like a hungry child,'" (from Oxygen To My Soul, A YouVersion Bible Plan).
This is how we should be treasuring God's Word. Devouring it like a hungry child. We should be desiring to learn more every day, and we should be seeking God daily. His Word should be our delight. And instead of having a heart that says "I've read that before," or "I know that," we should have a heart that's open and receiving to whatever God wants to share. Because I can assure you, no matter how many times you have read a verse or a passage, you will always get something new from it.
So, spend some time in God's presence today. Read a passage from the Bible. Spend time in His Word. Desire Him. Be in awe of Him. Let Him be the oxygen for your soul. Bow down before Him. He is our light and our counselor. He should be what our heart desires.
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