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"O how I love thy law! It is my meditation all the day." (Psalms 119:97)

  Don't be surprised by this, because with the way I have seen God work, everything is for reason. We might not understand it, but the choices we make, even those that are contrary to what we should do, God allows them to happen, for one reason or another. In this section of Scripture we are given a glimpse of the benefits to loving God's law, which for the sake of argument, is His Word! This goes back to something that I have shared about over and over, that the Bible must be considered the written Word of God, period! If we cannot get past the first verse, we will stumble throughout the entire Book, because the power of God must be something that is settled deep within our very core. Doubting God can do all things, means that we doubt He can anything, it is just that simple. He is either God over all, or He is not God at all; it is the choice we make in our own hearts and minds. This last Sunday Pastor Rick shared about choices, as in the choices we make and why we make them. There are things that God has ordained for each and everyone of us to walk in; some of us will do what is right, and some of us will not. But don't think for a moment that your wrong choices will prevent God's will from being done, because one way or another, God's plan is never altered! This is part of the motivation I see David trying to share with us this wonderful morning; that loving God's word is more than just for learning, it is for living! We need to appreciate God's goodness for our lives, that He is for us, not against us, and that meditation in our hearts should be towards all the great things He wants to do in us, if we only obey His commands. In John 5:3, it says, "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and he commandments are not grievous." The things we love will be the things we think about, that is just a fact. If we love God because He first loved us, then we will love everything that He commands us to do, because they are all intended to be for our benefit and for good. What is so hard to understand in that? It is real wisdom to choose what is good and it going to benefit our soul...

"O the joys of those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or stand around with sinners, or join in with mockers. But they delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit for each season. Their leaves never whither, and they prosper in all they do." (Psalms 1:1-3) NLT