Tuesday, March 15, 2016


Word of God
But he replied and said, "It is written, 'It is not by bread alone that a man lives, except by every word that issues from the mouth of God
The Gospel According to Matthew 4:4

The Book of Psalm 1:2
All commentary and study notes are prefaced/edited by Dr. Riktor Von Zhades
But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Brethren:

In the Aramaic translation (aka, the Peshetta) the above is translated; “Instead his pleasure is in the law of the Lord, and in his Torah he meditates day and night.” Likewise in the Tanach(Ed. 1917) it reads; “Rather the teaching of the Lord is his delight and he studies it day and night” In the latter translation, the word studies is also meant, according to the ancient Hebrew, “to utter”.

However in all the above translations, there is nothing lost on the meanings for we are instructed by God, via the Psalmist David, to thing upon the things that are handed down to us from God. That is to say His commands and His wisdom. Consider also the scriptures of the Book of Deuteronomy and the Book of Joshua, wherein we are instructed to keep the words of our Creator within our hearts and meditate upon them day and night. (Read Deuteronomy 6:6; Joshua 1:8)

Friends, let us take heed, and maintain our thoughts on the words of the scriptures daily, whenever and whereever possible. When we arise from our sleep, let us read and study, in order that our thoughts be to Him that made us, and before we return to our slumbers later in the evening, let us read again, so that we might have the peace of His words to accompany us during our nocturnal rest. Dr. RVZ

Delighting in the Word and meditating on the Word must go together (Read Psalm 119:15-16, 23-24, 47-48, 77-78), for whatever we enjoy, we think about and pursue. If we speak to the Lord about the Word, the Word will speak to us about the Lord. This is what is meant by “abiding in the Word” (Read 1 John 2:14, 24). The way we treat the Bible is the way we treat Jesus Christ, for the Bible is His Word to us.” - Warren W. Wiersbe - American Pastor and Theologian

A godly man, that he may do that which is good and cleave to it, submits to the guidance of the word of God and makes that familiar to him. This is that which keeps him out of the way of the ungodly and fortifies him against their temptations. By the words of thy lips I have kept me from the path of the deceiver, (Read Psalm17:4). We need not court the fellowship of sinners, either for pleasure or for improvement, while we have fellowship with the word of God and with God himself in and by his word. When thou awakest it shall talk with thee, (Read Proverbs 6:22).

The entire affection which a good man has for the law of God: His delight is in it. He delights in it, though it be a law, a yoke (Read Matthew 11:28-30), because it is the law of God, which is holy, just, and good, which he freely consents to, and so delights in, after the inner man, (Read Romans 7:16, 22). All who are well pleased that there is a God must be well pleased that there is a Bible, a revelation of God, of his will, and of the only way to happiness in him. The intimate acquaintance which a good man keeps up with the word of God: In that law doth he meditate day and night; and by this it appears that his delight is in it, for what we love we love to think of, (Read Psalm 119:97). To meditate in God’s word is to discourse with ourselves concerning the great things contained in it, with a close application of mind, a fixedness of thought, till we be suitably affected with those things and experience the savour and power of them in our hearts. This we must do day and night; we must have a constant habitual regard to the word of God as the rule of our actions and the spring of our comforts, and we must have it in our thoughts, accordingly, upon every occasion that occurs, whether night or day. No time is amiss for meditating on the word of God, nor is any time unseasonable for those visits. We must not only set ourselves to meditate on God’s word morning and evening, at the entrance of the day and of the night, but these thought should be interwoven with the business and converse of every day and with the repose and slumbers of every night. When I awake I am still with thee.” - Matthew Henry 17th Century Theologian



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