November 16: Glad Tidings.
Delighting in the Law.
I long for Your salvation, O Lord, and Your law in my delight.--Psalm 119:174, NKJV
WHAT A GOD IS OUR GOD! He rules over His kingdom with diligence and care, and He has built a hedge--the Ten Commandments--about His subjects to preserve them from the results of transgression. In requiring obedience to the laws of His kingdom, God gives His people health and happiness, peace and joy. He teaches them that the perfection of character He requires can be attained only by becoming familiar with His word.--Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 454.
Where there is not only belief in God's word, but a submission of the will to Him; where the heart is yielded to Him, the affections fixed upon Him, there is faith--faith that works by love and purifies the soul. Through this faith the heart is renewed in the image of God. And the heart that in its unrenewed state is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be, now delights in its holy precepts, exclaiming with the psalmist, "O how love I Thy law! Thy law! It is my meditation all the day." Psalm 119:97, Steps to Christ, 63.
"And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you,
but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him,
to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statues
which I commanded you today for your good? Indeed heaven
and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God,
also the earth with all that is in it.
The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them;
and He chose their descendants after them,
you above all peoples, as it is this day."
--Deuteronomy 10:12-15, NKJV
Delighting in the Law.
I long for Your salvation, O Lord, and Your law in my delight.--Psalm 119:174, NKJV
WHAT A GOD IS OUR GOD! He rules over His kingdom with diligence and care, and He has built a hedge--the Ten Commandments--about His subjects to preserve them from the results of transgression. In requiring obedience to the laws of His kingdom, God gives His people health and happiness, peace and joy. He teaches them that the perfection of character He requires can be attained only by becoming familiar with His word.--Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, 454.
Where there is not only belief in God's word, but a submission of the will to Him; where the heart is yielded to Him, the affections fixed upon Him, there is faith--faith that works by love and purifies the soul. Through this faith the heart is renewed in the image of God. And the heart that in its unrenewed state is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be, now delights in its holy precepts, exclaiming with the psalmist, "O how love I Thy law! Thy law! It is my meditation all the day." Psalm 119:97, Steps to Christ, 63.
"And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you,
but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him,
to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
and to keep the commandments of the Lord and His statues
which I commanded you today for your good? Indeed heaven
and the highest heavens belong to the Lord your God,
also the earth with all that is in it.
The Lord delighted only in your fathers, to love them;
and He chose their descendants after them,
you above all peoples, as it is this day."
--Deuteronomy 10:12-15, NKJV
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