Open my eyes!

Psa 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.


Wondrous things.

When we think of wondrous things rarely do we think of finding anything wondrous in the law, right? Seriously, how often do people equate wondrous things with the law? In my limited experience, not often.

When we talk of having our eye opened what are we REALLY asking for? Understanding, comprehension, the ability to learn, to know all that we need to know.

People think it's as simple as reading- comprehending, but how often do we read something without fully understanding what it is saying?

Why would David want his eyes opened to understand a law that was plain to understand? A lot of Do's and Don't's, right. Do this, don't do that, what's so hard to understand? Yet David wanted to have his understanding opened even further, David wanted to behold all that the law had to reveal. He wanted to understand the AMAZING things the law was saying. He wanted to understand more than the simple do's and don't's. Why? Because there is so much more to understand.


If we, by the grace of God, by the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit are blessed with full comprehension of God's law what a miracle that is. Understanding the wonder of the law, understanding the love of the law.

If we can find even one of the ten great commandments that is no longer valid then we are ripping apart the fabric of God's love. We've already talked about how Jesus kept the law perfectly not transgressing in a single point and this gave Him the right to be our Savior, to save us from our sins, to save us from our transgressions against the law of God. Without that law of God's to keep there is no sin.

Remember, Adam and Eve were commanded NOT to eat of that one tree. They broke that command and the result was sin.

The law of God is wondrous and we NEED our understanding open so we can see this wonder, so we can see the amazing love in the law. We aren't to make up our own laws and call them good, yet many people do that, they create their own versions of God's law and they believe as long as they live up to their own set standards everything will be just fine. The very unfortunate thing about creating our own standards is we base them on our sinful nature, not God's pure perfect nature.

We have to understand that we are CREATURES! I'll say it time and time again, over and over and over because it is so true and it's as if we turn our minds from God a few moments from now after reading this and we quickly forget- WE ARE CREATURES! We were CREATED. We will FOREVER be created beings, owing our very existence to our Creator. Just as we are to honor our mother and father- those who have given us life by their joining - two becoming one so that we could be created, we are to honor our heavenly Father who gave life to us all by giving life to our first parents. Life givers- life from created beings, there is an honor due to those who create life- though nowadays you would scarcely know it. We so easily get abortions - scraping newly created life from our bodies as if that life that was created meant absolutely nothing at all. The fact you yourself are alive and able to create life is the only miracle you need to fully comprehend in order to realize how truly amazing it is to be able to create life. People just don't want to understand, Satan has blinded them into believing they are their own person in need of NO god, in fact they themselves have become gods because they now know what good and evil are. In being gods themselves they have the right to deny life, to destroy life. Too many people are completely caught up in believing they have the RIGHT to be their own gods. They live their lives under that assumption and have NO need of God or His laws.

Once again I'm going to refer to the book- 'Mere Christianity', the book starts out explaining HOW it is that there is a natural law in existence and it leads into how there had to be a Creator of what we call a natural law. It's so worth reading if you haven't read it yet.

More tomorrow on the commandments of God. May our eyes be opened just as David prayed that His eyes be opened, may we pray the same and by the grace of God may it be so that we behold wondrous things out of His law!


All to the glory of God!


Amen.