A Lamp Unto My Feet
The hundred and nineteenth psalm is the longest chapter in the Bible, and almost every one of its hundred and seventy-six verses says something about the word of God. It is not an accident. The psalmist is not padding. He is circling one thing from twenty-two directions, once for every letter of the Hebrew alphabet, because one pass at it was not enough.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
Notice what the lamp does and what it does not do. It does not light up the whole road. It lights the next step. That is a smaller promise than we would have written for ourselves, and a better one, because a lamp that showed the whole road would leave nothing to walk by faith and nothing to come back for tomorrow.
The same psalm asks the Lord seven different times to teach the writer His statutes. A man who already understood would not keep asking. That is worth remembering the next time a passage refuses to open up on the first reading.
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