TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Memorize this Verse:
8. I D T D T W O M G Y T L I W M H
This, though in a general sense it may be true of David and of all God’s people, yet if it be compared with the foregoing verse. And with the explication thereof in the New Testament, (in which those mysteries which were darkly and doubtfully expressed in the Old Testament are fully and clearly revealed), must be set apart to Christ. Of whom it is eminently true, and is here observed as an act of obedience. That he not only resolved to do, but delighted in doing, the will of God, or what God had commanded him and he had promised to do. Which was to die, and that a most shameful, and painful, and cursed death (see Luke 12:50; John 10:18; Heb. 10:9-10).
“Yea, thy law is within my heart”: I do not only understand it, but receive it with heartiest love. Delighting both to meditate on it, and to yield obedience to it. Either the whole moral law, under which he was, as man, and the surety of his people. And which was written upon his heart, and which he perfectly obeyed. Or that particular law, injunction, and command laid upon him by his Father, to offer himself a sacrifice, and lay down his life for men. Which he agreed to, had it in his mind, his heart was set upon it, and he cheerfully complied with it (John 10:18).
Jesus said it all when He said, “Not my will but thine be done”. This should be our statement, too. If Christ liveth in us, then the Law of God is in our heart. It is a pleasure, not a chore, to do the will of the Lord.
The next reading will be on the 1st of next month. Check back then!
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