Psalm 119 Pt VII: I love thy law, it is my meditation all the day

From Psalms

Psalm 119: 97-112

Mem
⁹⁷O how love I thy law!
      it is my meditation all the day.
⁹⁸Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies:
      for they are ever with me.
⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers:
      for thy testimonies are my meditation.
¹⁰⁰I understand more than the ancients,
      because I keep thy precepts.
¹⁰¹I have refrained my feet from every evil way,
      that I might keep thy word.
¹⁰²I have not departed from thy judgments:
      for thou hast taught me.
¹⁰³How sweet are thy words unto my taste!
      yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
¹⁰⁴ Through thy precepts I get understanding:
      therefore I hate every false way.

Nun
¹⁰⁵Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,
      and a light unto my path.
¹⁰⁶I have sworn, and I will perform it,
      that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
¹⁰⁷I am afflicted very much: quicken me,
      O Lord, according unto thy word.
¹⁰⁸Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth,
      O Lord, and teach me thy judgments.
¹⁰⁹My soul is continually in my hand:
      yet do I not forget thy law.
¹¹⁰The wicked have laid a snare for me:
      yet I erred not from thy precepts.
¹¹¹Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever:
      for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
¹¹²I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway,
      even unto the end.

My best days start with meditation on psalms...these meditations stay with me the rest of the day.  These days, and weeks, if I can string enough of those days together, allow me to live like the psalmist in these verses.  Where God's word is a lamp unto my feet guiding me in my choices and spirit.  Where my feet (and my fingers on the keyboard) refrain from all evils.  Where I get understanding from God's precepts.  Where my soul is continually in my hand.  Where His testimonies are the rejoicing of my heart.

Between those days there are others where I stray from his word.  Where I consider revisiting my addictions.  Where I forget that God has his hand on me.  Thankfully though those are only passing - and fewer and fewer as time passes in His word.  Thankfully in the end I return to His word, His psalms, and His direction.  I am continually reminded of the beauty and joy that I have in the life the God has planned and destined for me.  I am eternally grateful for God's grace and forgiveness.
Thanks for letting me share.