My Ways, God's Ways

    I am taking myself through a little study on Psalm 119. Verses by verse, and in some cases almost word by word, I am slowly making my way through this extraordinary Psalm. This morning I spent my time in verses 25 and 26, and has been the case with all the verses up to now, I find myself amazed at the raw realities of life that the Bible actually gets down to, and the solutions to life's problem we find in its pages. 

    First the verses, then my humble interpretation of the verses as I prayed through them and looked to apply the truths to mine own life. Psalm 119:25-26 "My life is down in the dust, give me life through Your word. I told You about my life and You listened to me; teach me Your statues."

    LORD, through the events of life the very essence of who I am, my appetites, my emotions, my physical body, even my very breath, has been brought down to the dust. What You formed me of and where I have been brought down to are the same. Ashes to ashes; dust to dust; I am now laying in what You made me of. But, in all this, even though life has not gone as I planned, in all this I still have this one hope, that You would speak, and by Your words breath life back into my racked body and deflated dreams. That You, my God, would lift me again out of the dust. 

   LORD, I told You about my ways, the road I am on, the course my life has taken, my journey, and You responded. Yes LORD, I told You my ways, now teach my Your's, the things You have prescribed, the specific actions I need to take, so that according to Your word and ways, and even by them, I can be revived. I thank You that Your words are living and active, and get down to the real meat of life, and that by them and through them I can actually, really, and truly live.

   The words of an old familiar hymn come to mind. "Speak them over again to me, wonderful words of life. May I more of their beauty see, wonderful words of life."