{"id":2282,"date":"2019-05-07T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2019-05-07T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T00:33:08","slug":"commitments-and-connections-to-gods-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2019\/commitments-and-connections-to-gods-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitments and Connections to God&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psalm 119:105-112 was my early morning reading this past Sunday (May 5, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>I knew I was on to have the evening devotional in our home church. I decided I would use this passage. I also decided I would just wing my public commentary based on my early morning thoughts (an approach that&#8217;s very out of the ordinary for me).<\/p>\n<p>I had a Mission Board meeting to attend that afternoon, so I went early and spent some time rereading the passage and gathering my thoughts better.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was a relatively short meeting and I got home much earlier than I had anticipated. I decided to quickly &#8220;pencil out&#8221; a few notes for myself.<\/p>\n<p>That evening, after some introductory comments regarding this particular Psalm, I read Psalm 119:105-112: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ol start=\"105\" style=\"margin-left:25px\">\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\"><em class=\"bible\">&#8220;I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Commitments and connections to God&#039;s Word\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes-768x1001.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes-786x1024.jpg 786w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes-668x870.jpg 668w, https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/uploads\/psalm-119-105-112-notes.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>After the reading, I zeroed in on three verses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>God&#8217;s Word helps me see to navigate the darkness of life&#8217;s puzzles (Psalm 119:105).<\/li>\n<li>God&#8217;s Word renews me and revives me in my heavy afflictions (Psalm 119:107).<\/li>\n<li>God&#8217;s Word is part of my eternal heritage and inheritance (Psalm 119:111).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then I worked my way through the section noting commitments and connections to Word:<\/p>\n<ol start=\"105\" style=\"margin-left:25px\">\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will walk by the Word.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will keep the Word.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will turn to the Word.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will learn from the Word.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will remember the Word.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will stay true to the Word.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will rejoice in the Word.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left:10px\">I will do the Word.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course, I fleshed out my written notes with ad lib commentary which included these four items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Verse 105 suggests a dark environment &#8212; I don&#8217;t recall thinking about it that way before.<\/li>\n<li><em>Quicken<\/em> in verse 107 has to do with making alive or causing to live.<\/li>\n<li><em>Heritage<\/em> in verse 111 translates a Hebrew word that&#8217;s far more often translated <em>inheritance<\/em>. In fact, this is the only time it&#8217;s translated <em>heritage<\/em>. But whether we look back on our heritage or look forward to our inheritance, God&#8217;s Word is part of it. And it&#8217;s forever, not just for this life.<\/li>\n<li>Section bookends that talk about my commitment to obedience: verses 105 and 112.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from my brief public devotional in Psalm 119:105-112<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[96,39,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-2282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-psalms","7":"tag-aspiration","8":"tag-encouragement","9":"tag-obedience","10":"h-entry","11":"hentry","12":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-AO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}