Psalm 119:67-68
(67) Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now
have I kept thy word.
Afflicted - OT:6031 `anah (aw-naw');
a primitive root [possibly rather ident. with OT:6030 through the idea of
looking down or browbeating]; to depress literally or figuratively, transitive
or intransitive (in various applications, as follows):
Astray - OT:7683 shagag (shaw-gag');
a primitive root; to stray, i.e. (figuratively) sin (with more or less
apology):
God
uses afflictions to get our walk back to His path. Do I balk at afflictions,
testings, troubles, trials? Or do I stop to ask the Lord how He's using them in
my life? Can I say like the Psalmist, "It
is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes."
(Psalm 119:71)
(68) Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy
statutes.
Just
as we must believe in God's commandments (vs. 66), we must believe that God is
good to be fully receptive to His truth. God is good. Can I say that at any
moment of any day?
"Truly God is good to
Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart." (Psalm 73:1)
"And he said unto him,
Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou
wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." (Matthew 19:17)
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