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turn our eyes

Psalm 119:33-40 (JDV)

Psalm 119:33 Teach me, Yahveh, the meaning of your prescriptions, and I will always keep them.
Psalm 119:34 Help me understand your instruction, and I will obey it and follow it with all my heart.
Psalm 119:35 Help me stay on the path of your commands because I take pleasure in it.
Psalm 119:36 Turn my heart to your warning signs and not to dishonest profit.
Psalm 119:37 Turn my eyes from looking at what is worthless; give me life in your roads.
Psalm 119:38 Confirm what you said to your servant because it produces reverence for you.
Psalm 119:39 Turn away the disgrace I dread; indeed, your judgments are good.
Psalm 119:40 How I long for your directions! Give me life through your righteousness.

turn our eyes

It is amazing how many worthless things have our attention when we have the most valuable treasure ever in God’s word. Like David, we need to ask the LORD to turn our eyes away from these worthless things, and focus them on his holy word.

Harold Hazen wrote: “A good preacher could plan a whole year of Sunday morning and evening sermons including Wednesday evening Bible studies, and never probe all of the amazing depths of God’s truth contained in the 119th Psalm. Every verse focuses on the importance of God’s Word yet seems to be unrelated to the previous verse or the next verse, but all wonderfully expounding the timeless and eternal nature of God’s Word. As the longest Psalm it appears to be a compilation of David’s thoughts randomly expressed and unconnected to each other but all powerfully pertinent to our Christian walk. Equally impressive is how much David was able to draw from God’s Word given how little of it he had in comparison to what we have today. To our shame then if we don’t take advantage of the Scriptures available to us.” (Maranatha Devotional, Friday, August 11, 2017).