For November 25th, 2013

11/25/13

Psa 119:169  Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word!

Psa 119:170  Let my plea come before you; deliver me according to your word.

Psa 119:171  My lips will pour forth praise, for you teach me your statutes.

Psa 119:172  My tongue will sing of your word, for all your commandments are right.

Psa 119:173  Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

Psa 119:174  I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight.

Psa 119:175  Let my soul live and praise you, and let your rules help me.

Psa 119:176  I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.

This commences the last stanza of psalm 119, indicated by the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the letter Tau (ט ṭ), corresponding to our “t,” or “th.”

The author says that he longs for the LORD’S salvation, and confesses that he has gone astray.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned--everyone--to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

So even though we stray, the LORD has taken our iniquity on Himself.

Mat 18:12  What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?

Mat 18:13  And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray.

Mat 18:14  So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.