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February 13
Friday


THE WORD
AMONG US

READ:
Psalm 119:17-24
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Your testimonies also
are my delight and
my counselors.
__Psalm 119:24
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The Word of God comes to us in many forms. Bible-centered preaching, Scripture reading, songs, study groups, and devotional articles bring to us the truths of God from Scripture. But we can't overlook personal reading ad studying either.

My heart has recently been touched by a careful, paragraph-by-paragraph study of Deuteronomy alongside the sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7. Both passages contain codes of belief: the Ten Commandments (Deut. 5:6-21) and the Beatitudes (Matt. 5:3-12). Deuteronomy shows us the old covenant__the law God wanted His people to follow. In Matthew, Jesus shows us how He has come to fulfill that law and establish the principles of the new covenant, which frees us from the burden of the law.

The Holy Spirit comes alongside the Word of God to teach, empower, instruct, convict, and purify us. The result is understanding, repentance, renewal, and growth in Jesus. Theologian Philip Jacob Spener wrote: "The more at home the Word of God is among us, the more we will bring about faith and fruits." Let's pray with the psalmist: "Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law" so that we might live it out in our lives (Ps. 119:18), __David Egner

`````````````````"Heavenly father, we bow in Your presence. Let Your```````````````````
`````````````````Word be our rule and guide, Your Spirit our teacher,`````````````````````
```````````````````and Your greater glory be our supreme concern,```````````````````````
`````````````through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." __John R. W. stott````````````````````
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When the Word of God is within us,
it flows out from our life.

********************************Today's Bible Reading __ Psalm 119:17-24********************************

17 Deal bountifully with
Your servant, that I may
live and keep Your Word.

18 Open my eyes, that I may
see wondrous things from
Your law. 19 I am a stranger
in the earth; do not hide
Your commandments from
me. 20 My soul breaks with
longing for Your judgments
at all times. 21 You rebuke
the proud__the cursed, who
stray from Your
commandments. 22 Remove
from me reproach and
contempt, for I have kept
Your testimonies. 23 Princes
also sit and speak against
me, but Your servant
meditates on Your statutes.

24 Your testimonies also are
my delight and my
counselors.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Psalm 119 is a celebration of God's law, broken down into 22
sections that follow the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. When we
take a look at the individual sections, we see that the psalmist
personally looks to God's law as a source of life and guidance.
In today's passage, the psalmist celebrates God's grace as he
acknowledges that it is only through Him that he can keep His
Word (v.17).