Wow! Have you ever read something that was life transforming? That impacted you so deeply you had to tell people about it? That happened to me this morning. I read Psalm 119.
I was having just a horrendous start to my day. I had to get out of the house and clear my head and think. So, I took my Bible, got a venti Americano with hazelnut and cream at Starbucks and headed to the marina on Foster Avenue in Sayville. God's word, coffee and water. That's the combination I needed to get me back on track. I was soon to realize, though, that it is God's word that would clear my mind and focus me back where it belonged.
The author of Psalm 119 is not known for certain. And, really, it's not important. What is important as you read this Psalm is that the author fully understood that their comfort, guidance and delight came from the word of God. Whether they used the term precepts, commands, word, law or promise, it all points to the word of God.
We don't get guidance from Oprah or Dr. Phil. We don't get comfort from Joel Osteen or Joyce Meyers. We aren't put back on track by a book by this author or that televangelist. The Bible, the word of God is where we get all of this.
Here's an extra, for no extra cost. If a person says they know better than the word of God, DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM! Case in point. All this hoopla about this Saturday being the rapture is UNBIBLICAL and therefore SINFUL! Mr. Harold Camping /Family Radio is a FALSE TEACHER! He has already been wrong about the end of the world in 1994. The word of God says in Matthew 24:34-36:
34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
That means that no one knows when the end will come except God the Father. Not Harold Camping. Not anyone who follows him. No one! You can't figure it out with numbers or calendars or being clever with twisting what God says.
So, friends, read the Bible. Do what is says and you'll be sure to be doing God's will. Psalm 119 makes it clear that the word is the beginning and the end of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Anything else is just a waste of your time and your life.
