JANUARY 3, 2025 Psalm 119:9-10 How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to Your word. With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! With these verses, we move from the section designated as א alef to the next, which is ב beit. Typically, […]
JANUARY 2, 2026 Psalm 119:7-8 I will praise You with uprightness of heart, when I learn Your righteous judgments. I will keep Your statutes. In these verses the psalmist reiterates his commitment to do what is right in the eyes of God, and to praise Him as he learns more and more of God’s righteousness. […]
JANUARY 1, 2026 Psalm 119:4-6 You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently. Oh, that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes! Then I would not be ashamed, when I look into all Your commandments. In the previous devotion, we focused on the importance of being diligent to keep the Word of God […]
DECEMBER 31, 2025 Psalm 119:4-6 You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently. Oh, that my ways were directed to keep Your statutes! Then I would not be ashamed, when I look into all Your commandments. There is a reason God tells us to be diligent in our pursuit of Him and His righteousness. […]
DECEMBER 30, 2025 Psalm 119:2-3 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways. A testimony is something that bears witness to the truth. In Scripture, for something to be established as credible fact, it must be confirmed by two or more witnesses […]
DECEMBER 29, 2025 Psalm 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord! This psalm is the lengthiest prayer in the Book of Psalms. The composer, believed to have been David, charts the stages of a person’s journey toward spiritual perfection by using the sequential order of the twenty-two Hebrew letters. In […]
DECEMBER 28, 2025 Psalm 118:28-29 You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. Imagine the day when this age has passed, and the glorious age when Messiah reigns will have begun. The world will experience unprecedented peace and prosperity. […]
DECEMBER 27, 2025 Psalm 118:27-28 Bind the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar. You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. The Hebrew word, most often translated as “sacrifice,” is קרבן korban which literally means, “to approach, to come close.” The concept of sacrifice, from a […]
DECEMBER 26, 2025 Psalm 118:27 God is the Lord, and He has given us light. As we discussed in the previous devotion, the Messiah is the Light of the world, and yet He has assigned us to be the light of the world as well. That is not to say we are the source of light in this spiritually […]
DECEMBER 25, 2025 Psalm 118:27 God is the Lord, and He has given us light. We begin today by stating an obvious truth, which is, the Lord God is the source of all things good, including light. In the beginning, summoning light to appear in the midst of darkness was one of the first acts of Creation. Throughout Scripture, […]
