"All your words are true; all your righteous laws are eternal." Psalm 119:160
Today's verse is the perfect follow-up to yesterday's, because it specifically points out a few things about the Bible that are completely accurate. The first being that "all your words are true." I love seeing that, because it encourages me to keep reading. Notice it doesn't say that just some of the words in the Bible are true- and it doesn't say that "just the newer ones" or "just these ones" are true. The ALL are. There's something finite about that word all- it encompasses every syllable that was written in the Bible. Every single word was God-breathed, right down to every thee and thou in the King James Version.
And then there's the second part. "All your righteous laws are eternal". Check out that word! Eternal! That means forever and ever and then some! It also tells me that the Bible isn't just for us now- it's for us yesterday and it's for us tomorrow. We'll still be using the Bible well into our eighties and we'll still be using our Bible well after we've died and gone to Heaven. All of God's laws are eternal- they last forever, and they are for everyone as well. God's laws are not like the man-made laws where we make them and then a few years they become outdated and they need to be repealed. God's laws continue day after day and year after year and we can take comfort in that. In our worst of times, when we maybe have nothing else holding us together, we have God's Word, which is with us forever, and will help us to get through those tough times. It can be like a comfort blanket for a child, because simply reading God's words of love is enough to feel as though you are being wrapped up in a big cuddly blanket. Even on your darkest day, God's Word can bring you light.
"I have hidden your word in my heart
that I might not sin against you." Psalm 119:11
"Open my eyes that I may see
wonderful things in your law" Psalm 119:18
"Your laws endure to this day,
for all things serve you. " Psalm 119:91
"Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path." Psalm 119:105
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