While most of Psalm 119 doesn’t flow like a daily spiritual account of the author, some portions of it feel very personal. For instance, the twelfth stanza seems to be a personal cry out to God. Take a look at the first half in Psalm 119:89-92:

With this stanza, we move past two points, the lowest, most despairing portion of the psalm, which we studied in the last three stanzas. We also move past the halfway point of this psalm. The preceding stanzas also seemed very personal, a glimpse into the suffering and affliction the psalmist had experienced.

In this passage, we begin to see that God came through, just as expected and as promised, and the tone of the psalm begins to pick up. In fact, from this point onward, Psalm 119 will continue to move upward, and in this passage, we see that the basis for that encouragement is the Word of God itself.

The first three verses here seem to almost state the same thing, that God’s Word is everlasting, and that it is something that we can depend upon, and build our lives on. God’s Word is everlasting, just like his faithfulness, and the laws he enacted.

Scripture often teaches the everlasting nature of God’s Word. Jesus taught that the Word would endure in Matthew 5:17-18, and again in Matthew 24:35. John teaches that the Word was present in the beginning, in John 1:1, drawing a connection between the written Word of God, and the Word who is the Son. Isaiah 40:8 speaks of God’s Word lasting forever, as does 1 Peter 1:24-25, just to name a few.

In the next half of this stanza, the psalmist shares just what God’s Word accomplished in his life, in three specific ways. But those things are secondary to the everlasting and enduring quality of God’s Word. If it were not, it wouldn’t have any power whatsoever to affect our lives.

With such power at our fingertips, it would be unwise to ignore it. We should take the time to soak up this treasure continually. And do so with joy, because it is the source of joy.

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