Psalm 119:166-168 LORD, I have hoped for your salvation, and done your commandments.… Set upon the practice of what you read. A student in physic doth not satisfy himself to read over a system or body of physic, but he falls upon practising physic. The life-blood of religion lies in the practical part. Christians should be walking Bibles. Xenophon said, "Many read Lycurgus's laws, but few observe them." The Word written is not only a rule of knowledge, but a rule of obedience; it is not only to mend our sight, but to mend our pace. David calls God's Word "a lamp unto his feet" (ver. 105). It was not only a light to his eyes to see by, but to his feet to walk by. By practice we trade with the talent of knowledge, and turn it to profit. This is a blessed reading of Scripture, when we fly from the sins which the Word forbids, and espouse the doctrines which the Word commands. Reading without practice will be but a torch to light men to hell. ( T. Watson.) Parallel Verses KJV: LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.WEB: I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments. |
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