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Your Most Valuable Possession | bibleinoneyear.org: Love God’s words Psalm 119:97-104 Without God, our lives make no sense. As we read his word we understand the meaning and purpose of our lives: ‘With your instruction I understand life’ (v.104, MSG). Nothing could be more important or more valuable than this. At her coronation, the Queen was handed a copy of the Bible with these words, ‘We present you with this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affords.’ The psalmist writes, ‘Oh, how I love your law!’ (v.97a). He says, ‘I reverently ponder it all the day long’ (v.97b, MSG). He writes, ‘Your words are so choice, so tasty; I prefer them to the best home cooking’ (v.103, MSG). The effect of loving God’s word, and meditating on it, is to give you wisdom (v.98), insight (v.99) and understanding (vv.100,104): ‘I’ve even become smarter than my teachers’ (v.99, MSG). It makes you determined to keep your feet from every evil and wrong path (vv.101,104). Lord, thank you that your words give me wisdom, insight and understanding. Help me to love them, to meditate on them and to obey them.

Love God’s words

Psalm 119:97-104

Without God, our lives make no sense. As we read his word we understand the meaning and purpose of our lives: ‘With your instruction I understand life’ (v.104, MSG). Nothing could be more important or more valuable than this.

At her coronation, the Queen was handed a copy of the Bible with these words, ‘We present you with this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affords.’

The psalmist writes, ‘Oh, how I love your law!’ (v.97a). He says, ‘I reverently ponder it all the day long’ (v.97b, MSG). He writes, ‘Your words are so choice, so tasty; I prefer them to the best home cooking’ (v.103, MSG).

The effect of loving God’s word, and meditating on it, is to give you wisdom (v.98), insight (v.99) and understanding (vv.100,104): ‘I’ve even become smarter than my teachers’ (v.99, MSG). It makes you determined to keep your feet from every evil and wrong path (vv.101,104).

Lord, thank you that your words give me wisdom, insight and understanding. Help me to love them, to meditate on them and to obey them.