In every day street language here is how I read what the Psalmist is saying. "Lord, I have done my best to cling, to adhere to what You have said about Yourself and about what You require. Please don't deny. Don't let me be disappointed. I will take off like a runner on a mission if You will increase the amount of You my heart can hold."
It is somewhat of a revelation to think that God's Word is actually His own first-hand witness of Himself. To believe what God's witness (His Word) is saying about God is to believe what God has said about Himself. His words are His own witness. This becomes even more meaningful when I understand and believe that Jesus is actually the Word of God incarnated into human form. Everything Jesus said and did He did as God's witness, as the testimony of God.
If you have been around Christendom long enough you are probably already saying "I know all this!", but do you really? To know in the head is not the same as to know in the heart. Personally, I have not held a high or holy enough view of God's witness, His life-giving, living and active, Self-revealing, Word.
Lord, I believe, help Thou my unbelief. Lord, I see men as trees walking. I want to see clearly. Lord, please open the eyes of my understanding. Please, enlarge my heart by Your Word, then pull the trigger on the starting pistol.
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