“How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!” ~ Psalm 119:103 My kids asked me a serious question: “How do you know that guy in the drive-thru?” Ha. “I don’t really,” I said. Except for I do – sort of. He’s eighteen, and he’s working almost every
I know all of us have had days, weeks, and months of hardship. I am talking about days when it is hard to focus on a task because of worry, and nights that rob us of sleep. Sometimes these hard times seem to drag on and on. After some weeks
Seeking, longing, searching… this poor Psalmist is waiting on the Lord to deliver him from this affliction. He is trying to remain strong, but he is growing weary, feeling as though he could faint. His eyes are tired from looking for glimpses of God. Have you ever been there? I
We are in verses Psalm 119:73-80 today and there is so much richness in these verses. I’m not going to be able to cover all of them, so I want to camp on just a few. Verses 76-77 say this: “Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise
“Mama… I can’t sleep. I’m so afraid. So afraid something bad is going to happen to all of us,” she says with tears streaming down her beautiful face. Fear. This sweet girl of mine has recently been struggling with a crippling fear that something bad is going to happen to
The generator had been shut down hours before. Funny how many things you can hear in the middle of the night without the hum of electricity drowning out the sounds of the earth. I was twenty-one and wide awake in a foreign land, and God had met me there. Of course
Welcome to week 3 of our Psalm 119 study! What do you run to for comfort? For me it is people. If I am sad or scared or worried or discouraged I go to my husband or friends. But people are not the only source of comfort, right? Some seek
Revive. It stirs up strong feelings of desire for me. In Psalm 119:25, it says, “My soul cleaves to the dust; Revive me according to your Word.” In other versions it uses words like “quicken” and “give me life,” but revive brings about a beautiful word picture. Revive means making
Perhaps one of the most challenging yet rewarding roads to spiritual health is the discipline of single-minded satisfaction on what has come from God’s hand. And the best way to safeguard your contentment in Christ is to ask the Holy Spirit to whisper Psalm 119 into your ear every now and
I have chosen the way of truth; I have set my heart on your laws. (Psalm 119:30) Have you ever felt like the Psalmist… like you were laid low in the dust, begging God to preserve your life? I know I have at different times in my life. Maybe it