"Open thou my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”
References to the “law” in Psalm 119 are about the scripture, or the Bible, that the psalmist had at that time. When I read this I thought about my own experience in Bible reading and Bible study. I have been reading the Bible word for word every weekday for the last thirty years, and I am always discovering things that I did not see in other trips through the Bible. That actually excites me. I want the Lord to open my eyes to see the things in His word that will make a difference in my life. It’s not that I just want to know the Bible; I want to know enough about it to live it. Following are some examples of what I mean: I want my Bible to open my eyes to the importance of humility. Pharisees in the New Testament could probably have made a hundred on a test about knowledge of the law, but it did not make them better people. It made them self-righteous. If one becomes self-righteous about his or her Bible knowledge he or she has frankly missed the point. The Bible is about the greatness of God and the humbleness of people. Peter made a salient point about humility in 1Peter 5:6: “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He might exalt you in due time.” I want the Bible to open my eyes to make me more loving toward my fellow human beings. I want to love like God loves as best I can. This means that I want to love and accept people, but that doesn’t mean that I will agree with everything that they do, or that they believe.. (I actually do not love what I do at times. You might as well admit it too!) The Bible teaches us that we should love each other. 1 John 4:20 reminds us: “If a man say I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen.” I want the Bible to open my eyes to the lesson in 2 Corinthians 12:9:”And (Jesus) said to me (Paul), My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.” (This was Jesus’ answer to Paul when he asked to be healed of his “thorn in the flesh.”) I want to always depend on the sufficiency of Christ’s grace in every aspect of my life. I was saved by His grace, and I want to always be sustained by His grace. Of course this is not everything that I need to have “my eyes opened to” in Bible study, but I think they are three worthy goals. I hope you learned from my meanderings on reading the Bible. Bro. Joe
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