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Daily Devotion: Psalm 119:129-132

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Psalm 119:129-132    "Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.  (130)  The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.  (131)  I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.  (132)  Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name."

I remember when the Lord was first making me aware of my call into the ministry. I wish I could tell you that from a small child, I have loved the Word of God, but that would not be truthful. I had to look for a Bible on the night that the Lord began speaking distinctly to my heart. I knew I had one (somewhere), but I could only find the "table top" model. You know, the huge white Bible that people used to have laying on the coffee table. I finally found my personal size Bible, but didn't know where to start reading. I just opened it and began reading. God is so good! We know that, don't we? It isn't just a saying that we repeat. He is so good. I say that just now because of the place where the Lord sent my eyes that night when I opened my Bible.

"In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.  (10)  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4:9-10) Then I read a few more verses farther down and found these words: " We love him, because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19)  I had no idea what the word, propitiation, meant, but it had to be something good because it was the work of God's love in my heart. I knew at that moment that the "testimonies (of God) are wonderful." Using the thought from today's Scripture, when those words entered my heart, it gave me a wonderful understanding that God loves ME. At that point, "I opened my mouth and panted." I WANTED MORE!  "I longed for thy commandments." I knew God was looking upon me and was merciful and I loved Him more than I had ever been capable. Yes, God is good and His mercy endures forever.

If you haven't taken the time to just read His Word, I highly recommend you doing so. You'll be amazed at what God has to tell you in His Word. And here is the part that gives understanding to the simple:

Jesus loves me, this I know,
for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to him belong;
they are weak, but he is strong.

Refrain:
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.

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