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October 4
LOVING THE WORD OF GOD

Scripture:  Psalm 119:97 “O how love I thy law!  It is my meditation all the day.”

     Psalm 119 is divided into 22 sections of 8 verses each.  In this section the psalmist is proclaiming how much he loves the Word of God!  He makes the proclamation in verse 97 saying, “O how love I thy law!”  Oh that all of God’s children could say that today!  
     The psalmist here proclaims his love for the Law of God and then tells us that he meditates on them all through the day.  Oh that our hearts could be so full of the Word that it was in our constant thoughts!  “Meditation” is defined in the 1828 Noah Webster’s Dictionary as “the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind”.  He just keeps it going over and over in his mind.
    He tells us also that through His commandments the Lord has made him wiser than his enemies.  Our enemy the devil, wants us to fall for all the tricks and deceptions that he throws at us, but God wants us to be wiser than that!  Fall in love with the Word of God.  Meditate on His Word and He will make you wise. His meditation had caused him to be wiser than the very ones that taught him. There is great reward in meditating on and keeping the Word of God!
    Knowing the Word of God and keeping these precepts, he had learned to refrain his feet from every evil way.  “Refrain” means to hold back, to keep from. He said in verse 104 that because of his understanding from the Word of God, that he hated every false way.
    It was not a bitter thing for him to meditate on the Word of God and keep himself from evil, but rather it was sweet.  Psalm 119:103 says, “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” How sweet is the Word of God to you today?