Psalm 119:27 Make me to understand the way of your precepts: so shall I talk of your wondrous works. I remember once I was travelling in Germany — I was a student in one of the universities there — and was making a tour of certain caves with some companions. One day we met the village postman. He said, "Would you not like to see a cave that is not down in the guide book?" We said, "Yes"; so away we struck through the brush and came to the cave. It was dark as midnight. He said, "It is perfectly beautiful. Every formation is an altar of the Druidical times," and so forth and so on. "Look curl there is a hole right there, and nobody has ever found the bottom of it." We looked up; we were afraid we would be the first to find the bottom. There was nothing at all pleasant about it; everything was dark and uncanny. But our guide just took a bit of magnesium and lit it, and suddenly the dark, cold, forbidding, dangerous place became luminous, and the stalactites came down from the ceiling to meet the stalagmites as they came up from the floor. Every one was an altar, not a Druidical altar, as they supposed, but an altar built by the hand of God. It was a place of marvellous beauty. It is just so with the Word of God. How often we come to a passage which looks dark, forbidding, and dangerous. You are often afraid that you will fall into some pitfall, but just look up to God in prayer, and let that passage be illuminated with the light of the Holy Ghost, and it becomes full of beauty, transcendent and glorious. (B. A. Torrey, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.WEB: Let me understand the teaching of your precepts! Then I will meditate on your wondrous works. |
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