Directing Our Ways to Keep God's Word (Part 5)

Four times in the first eight-verse section of Psalm 119 the word “keep” is employed with regard to keeping God’s Holy Word. In fact, throughout the psalm the words “keep” and “kept” are employed twenty-nine times in twenty-nine different verses. This is almost one fifth of the verses in the psalm, and unto this might be added the various references to walking in obedience unto God’s Word. Certainly then, one of the primary themes of Psalm 119 is the need to direct our ways to keep God’s Word. Even so, within the opening section of the psalm, in verse 5 the psalmist exclaimed so passionately, “O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!”

Keeping God’s Word...

1. Is the prerequisite for the Lord’s blessing.
2. Is the Lord’s plan for our daily lives.
3. Should be the passion of our hearts.
4. Should be the practice of our daily living.
5. Should be the priority of our hearts and lives.
6. Should be the platform for our prayer lives.
7. Should be the purpose for our learning.
8. Should be the pattern of our whole lives.
9. Should be the pleasure of our hearts.
10. Should be our policy because of the Lord’s grace.
11. Should be the pursuit of our lives.
12. Should be the principle for our friendships.
13. Should be our persuasion under the Lord’s chastening.
14. Should be our perseverance against persecution.
15. Should be our promise toward the Lord’s deliverance.
16. Is the pathway to spiritual understanding.
17. Should be the point of our separation.
18. Should be the persistence of our decision.
19. Should be the perspective of our burden.