Open My Eyes – Psalm 119:17-24

It is God’s bounty toward us that enables us to live and keep His Word.  We need our eyes opened by Him to see what He wants us to see.  His law becomes our counsel in life.

Gimel   

Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.  Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.  I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!  My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.  You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.  Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies.  Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.  Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.  (Psalm 119:17-24 ESV)

I demonstrate the importance of keeping God’s Word by seeing it as my reason for living.  It is the source of my confidence in the midst of danger and my delight and longing.  I need God to open my eyes in order to see the wonders of His law in my short life as a sojourner, and so that I may not come under His rebuke.  “My soul is consumed with longing for” His word.