This verse is the middle verse in the Bible. It is fitting that God should have the Psalmist to write down here that it is better to go to God for help, refuge and protection than any man or prince as it states in the next verse which means no matter how great or...

Psalms 118:22 speaks of our Lord Jesus Christ as the cornerstone on which all our faith is based who was rejected and killed by the builders (Israel’s leaders).  This was what was intended by God to happen so that Jesus could be killed and resurrected as it refers...

We who love and observe God’s word and desire to know Him better with all our being are blessed. These blessings are not health, wealth, and happiness, but little things sometimes that mean nothing to anyone else but us. We are blessed because living wrongly only...

God’s promise of a new heart and a new spirit was the promise of salvation and the gift of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling in the New Testament Covenant that would also give us the power to live the Christian life. This gift of a new heart and the Spirit’s indwelling...

Have you prayed a prayer like this in Psalm 119:17-20 that you might know and live out God’s word?  The Psalmist is asking God to open up the word to him that he might truly know it in all its depths of meaning.  This is a prayer we should pray every time we open...

Here we see God sovereignly working again all thing for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purposes.  Paul has been arrested, sent to Rome because he appealed to Caesar to avoid the Jews killing him in Jerusalem.  Now in Rome he has taken...

Here the Psalmist is speaking of his great devotion to God’s Word and wants God to give Him understanding of His word and to keep him from failing to keep God’s word. He speaks of how much he loves the word and delights to spend time in it. Do we have the same love...

The Psalmist says if he ever gets the opportunity He will speak of how great God’s word is and will not hesitate to because he is not ashamed of it. He also speaks of how much he loves God’s word. "Does it give you joy to read the Word of God? Do you love the...

Paul was speaking specifically to the Jews here who were judging everyone else, yet doing the same things and worse than they were condemning others for.  The timeless principle in this scripture is that this can be applied to unbelievers in general since they seem...

The Psalmist is thankful that the Lord has treated Him good because of his faithfulness to God’s word, but realizes that he needs more instruction and help from the Lord to continue to be faithful and obedient to His word. We need to be more like this Psalmist who...