Encouragement June 24 2009

Encouragement For A Weary Heart
June 24, 2009

Memory verse: Phil. 4:6-7 “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”

Psalm 19

Vs. 7-10 “The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.”

I have heard these verse put to music and sang before. If I am not mistaken the words to the song are word for word to these verses. Just as psalm 119 is about the word of God so are these verses. The “Treasury of David” (TOD) says this about this TOD “The law of the Lord is perfect; by which he means not merely the law of Moses but the doctrine of God, the whole run and rule of sacred Writ. The doctrine revealed by God he declares to be perfect…” TOD “Converting the soul. Making the man to be returned or restored to the place from which sin had cast him. The practical effect of the Word of God is to turn the man to himself, to his God, and to holiness; and the turn or conversion is not outward alone, "the soul" is moved and renewed.” This is the intention of the Word of God, to show man his sinful condition and have them restored just as Adam and Eve were before the fall.

TOD Ver. 8.” The statutes of the Lord are right. His precepts and decrees are founded in righteousness, and are such as are right or fitted to the right reason of man.” “Rejoicing the heart. Mark the progress; he who was converted was next made wise and is now made happy; that truth which makes the heart right then gives joy to the right heart. Free grace brings heart joy.”
The commandment of the Lord is pure. No mixture of error defiles it, no stain of sin pollutes it; it is the unadulterated milk, the undiluted wine.
Enlightening the eyes, purging away by its own purity the earthly grossness which mars the intellectual discernment: whether the eye be dim with sorrow or with sin, the Scripture is a skilful oculist, and makes the eye clear and bright.”

Is that not what we need today, for our eyes to made clear that we can clearly see what the will of God is for us today?

Prayer request: Arnold Priebe salvation, Sally Gruetzmacher has surgery on the 29, Wade Leggett with his lung problems.