October 5 Daily Devotional

Bible Reading

Psalm 119:1-24:

¹Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
³They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.
⁴Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
⁵O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
⁶Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
⁷I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
⁸I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
⁹Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
¹²Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
¹³With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
¹⁴I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches.
¹⁵I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
¹⁷Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word.
¹⁸Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
¹⁹I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.
²⁰My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.
²¹Thou hast rebuked the proud that are cursed, which do err from thy commandments.
²²Remove from me reproach and contempt; for I have kept thy testimonies.
²³Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.
²⁴Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counselors.

Devotional

A blind man cannot see the sun, neither the moon, nor the stars, nor the beauties of the earth. He cannot see where he is going. He walks in darkness. So it is spiritually. We are spiritually blind by nature. The Pharisees were blind, but were not aware of their blindness. They said unto Jesus, "Are we blind also? Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth." They had no excuse. Christ had spoken unto them. They rejected his word. He had done many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him. Christ had come into the world a light, that whosoever should believe on him, should not abide in darkness. But the Pharisees loved darkness rather than light.

This shows us how necessary it is that we pray with the psalm­ist, "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." And what wondrous things are there to behold in the word of God when the eyes of our understanding are en­lightened! Then we may know "what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward, who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come." How diligently we should study the Scriptures.

Prayer

Our Father in heaven we thank Thee that Thou hast not left us in darkness, but hast commanded the light to shine out of darkness, and hast shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Help us to realize that only in Thy light we shall see light. Preserve Thy Word unto us as a lamp unto our feet a light unto our path. Let Thy light and Thy truth continually lead us. Open Thou the eyes of the blind, and bring them that sit in darkness out of the prison house, and send Thy light unto them that dwell in the land of the shadow of death. For Jesus' sake. Amen.

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Scripture in Devotional: John 12:35; 9:40, 41; 15:22; 12:37, 46; 3:19; Ps. 119:18; Eph. 1:18-21.

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