Psalm 119:29 – “Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore my soul doth
keep them?”
First, the Word of God is like a fire to consume fears and
heartaches. In the Scriptures one can
find everything needed to heal and comfort.
Verse 52 tells us, “I remember thy
judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.” And verse 50, “This is my comfort in my affliction.” Isaiah 26:3 promises, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:
because he trusteth in thee.”
According to this, He promises peace of heart.
The Word of God is like a hammer to break the hardest heart. In Ezekiel 11:19, the prophet speaking of the
believing remnant says, “And I will give
them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the
stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them a heart of flesh.” Only God’s Word can take the hardest heart
and break it into a million pieces.
David, in his psalm of repentance, Psalm 51, cries out, “Create in me a clean heart, O God.”
The Word of God is like a light to illumine our pathway. Psalm 119:105 instructs us, “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a
light unto my path.” If we will use
His Word to illumine our path, He will guide us in the way we should go. The psalmist in verse 35 says, “Make me to go in the path of thy
commandments; for therein do I delight.”
Of course, the greatest work of the light of the gospel is to shine on
the darkness of man’s heart and point him to Calvary .
The Word of God is like a net to draw all men unto Him. Verse 59 says, “I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.” If we will meditate on His Word, it will draw
us unto Him. In fact the dragnet of
Matthew 13 was cast into the sea and drew all men to Him. Christ Himself tells the Jews in John 12:32, “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth,
will draw all men unto me.” The
gospel of Christ will draw men unto Him for salvation.
The Word of God is like food to feed the hungry heart. Verse 103 says, “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea sweeter than honey to my
mouth!” Nothing sustains the heart
of man more fully than to feast on the precious Word of God. Once again, Christ told the disciples, when
they questioned Him about meat, that He had meat to eat that they knew not
of. He then told them in John 4:34, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent
me, and to finish his work.”
The Word of God is like a foundation to build a spiritual
house upon. Just as the wise man of
Matthew 7:24, we need to build our spiritual house on the rock – the rock of
God’s Word. And according to Ephesians
2:20, “Jesus Christ himself being the
chief corner stone.” If we will
build on the Word of God with Jesus Christ as the chief corner stone, our
spiritual house will be able to stand against the storms of this life and the
onslaughts of the devil.
The Word of God is like a knowledge to assurance of
salvation. 1 John 5:13 tells us, “These things have I written unto you that
believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal
life.” The Scriptures are chock full
of promises of everlasting life. The
most well-known is John 3:16, “For God so
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosever believeth in
him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
"Lord, The wonders of your Word are above mortal description. Help us to lose ourselves in the Word and find ourselves in your Grace. Amen."
