Psalm 119:100 I have more understanding than the elders,
for I obey your precepts.
Knowing and obeying God’s Word has many benefits but I think
the understanding it gives me is close to, if not THE, most beneficial and most
useful. Understanding is no respecter of
persons. It can be a quality of the
lowest of the low, or of the greatest of leaders. This verse is in the middle of a group of
verses describing the benefits of knowing, loving and obeying the Word:
- Wisdom makes me wiser than [even] my enemies (v.98);
- insight (v. 99);
- understanding (v.100);
- purity (v. 101, 104);
- knowledge (v.102).
In other words, there is immeasurable personal and spiritual
benefit from knowing and obeying God’s Word.
I am so thankful, and actually quite overwhelmed, by the strong influence
that memorizing verses has had on my own personal walk with God through the
years since I began memorizing under the Bible Memory Association back in
1957. It has given me insight and
understanding that I may not have had any other way.
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