John Phillips in his book on the Psalms writes, “It is clear that the writer of Psalm 119 was a suffering saint who had to endure contempt if not downright ill treatment.”
It is because of this suffering that the Psalmist asks God to direct (firmly establish) his ways.
When going through the trials of life, it is difficult to “stay on track.” We can become easily derailed.
As a youngster I had a Sunday School teacher who was constantly giving us object lessons. One such lesson occurred on a warm spring day when he took our class out for one of his object lessons. As we all sat in a circle, he had each one of us go one by one and pull up a weed of some kind. Then he put us in teams, had us pull up a large weed, and then he gave us the assignment of pulling up a pine tree which only stood about three feet high but no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t budge that pine tree. He proceeded to tell us that in life we will either be planted in the world or the Word, and the time would come when we would be firmly established, unmovable. He closed by saying, “Make your choices in life prayerfully because the day will come when no one will be able to move you.”
Is that not what the Psalmist is asking for? To be firmly established in God’s statutes.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Make your choices carefully because today’s choices are tomorrow’s roots.
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