Zayin ז, 49-56
Psa 119:49-50, Remember the word to Your servant, Upon which You have CAUSED ME TO HOPE. THIS IS MY COMFORT in my affliction, For Your word has given me life.
HIS word cannot be broken, If HE has said it then it shall come to pass! This is our hope!
Num 23:19, “GOD IS NOT A MAN, THAT HE SHOULD LIE, NOR A SON OF MAN, THAT HE SHOULD REPENT. HAS HE SAID, AND WILL HE NOT DO? OR HAS HE SPOKEN, AND WILL HE NOT MAKE IT GOOD?
David boldly asks the LORD to fulfill HIS promise that HE has spoken to him!
2Sa 7:25, “Now, O LORD God, the word which You have spoken concerning Your servant and concerning his house, ESTABLISH IT FOREVER AND DO AS YOU HAVE SAID.
HIS word is our hope, HIS word is our guide in life! But, if we don’t read and know exactly what HE has promised how can we have hope?
Psa 119:54-56, Your statutes have been my songs In the house of my pilgrimage. I remember Your name in the night, O LORD, And I keep Your law. This has become mine, Because I kept Your precepts.
The LORD are in his thoughts day and night. HIS word has become part of himself, for his faith and hope can be found in the word!
Rom 10:17, So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Heth ח , 57-64
Psa 119:59-60, I THOUGHT ABOUT MY WAYS, And turned my feet to Your testimonies. I MADE HASTE, AND DID NOT DELAY TO KEEP YOUR COMMANDMENTS.
Hag 1:7, THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS!
If we were to examine ourselves through the lens of HIS word we fall short! Are there things we must give up, Pride, dependence on your own strength, and wisdom? Are we doing things that we shouldn’t? Examine yourself!
2Co 13:5, Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. DO YOU NOT KNOW YOURSELVES, THAT JESUS CHRIST IS IN YOU?—UNLESS INDEED YOU ARE DISQUALIFIED.
Lam 3:40, Let us search out and examine our ways, AND TURN BACK TO THE LORD;