Psalm 119:10-11 – Seek and Hide!

Take out your Bible and read Psalm 119:10-11. It became apparent to me recently through talking with a friend and others that so often the Word of God is just given to us in a devotional and that we really don't look at the Word of God but at the words of an author interpreting the Word. So therefore if you are reading this, I highly encourage you to get out your own copy of the scripture and to highlight, underline and journal your thoughts on these two verses before you read what I have to say about them. Are you ready?.....Okay, Go! J

Psalm 119:10-11 is obviously a follow up of the previous verse which encourages young men (and women) to guard their heart according to the Word in order to keep their lives pure. Verses 10 and 11 give a little bit of a "how to" on the matter. Read verse 10 again. Psalm 119:10 says "With my whole heart I seek you, let me not wander from your commandments."

Another way that we can keep our way pure is to wholeheartedly seek after the Lord. What does it mean to wholeheartedly seek after the Lord? It means that it is all we are devoted to. The good old dictionary defines wholeheartedly as being without reserve. We hold nothing back when we seek after something wholeheartedly. Matthew gives us several examples of seeking after something wholeheartedly. Look up Matthew 13:44, 45-46. In both these short parables we are given examples of someone looking for and finding something of great worth and selling all that they had for it. Luke 15:8-9 is also another example. A woman who loses a precious coin will diligently search her house until she has found what she is looking for.

Seek after the Lord with your whole heart and search for Him like you would hidden treasure. Pray and ask Him that He will keep you on the path of righteousness and that you won't wander away from the commandments. It is so easy to wander away and get distracted. Do something to keep your eyes and mind focused on the Lord, don't be like Peter who started sinking in the water when he took his eyes off the Lord.

Psalm 119:11 also has an awesome nugget of truth to it as well. Store up God's word in your heart that you might not sin against the Him. I don't know about you but I look at this verse in two different ways. Number one is that the more of God's word I have hidden in my heart, locked deep inside, memorized and written on my soul, the less that I want to sin. However it is our nature to sin, and to go against the Word of God. So my second way of looking at it is that the more we have the Word hidden in our hearts the more we are convicted of and realize when we sin. We are more and more aware of breaking the Lords commands. Take some time out some day (if not now) to read and meditate on what Paul has to say about sin in Romans 6, 7, and 8. Paul called himself the chief of sinners, not because the more he grew in Christ the more he sinned but because the more he grew in Christ the more he realized that he was sinning.

Abba Father, I want to seek you diligently with my whole heart and without reserve. May I search for you like lost treasure because you a great treasure, the pearl of great price. Keep me on the path of your commandments, guide me and direct me so that I am not prone to wander away and stumble in the thorns and thistle of sin. Grant me the ability to hide Your everlasting Word on the tablet of my heart so that I will keep from sinning and realize it when I do.. Forgive me for the wrong I have done and will do against you. You are my Father and I want nothing more than to please you, grow in You and be devoted to the Word that You have spoken.

Love you precious child, longing to know Your Word and follow you.