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Your Word have I hid in my heart

Your Word have I hid in my heart


"Your Word have I hid in my heart— that I might not sin against You ." Psalm 119:11

The children of God love their heavenly Father—and thus they steadfastly aim to please Him and to do His will. Earnestly do they desire not to sin against Him—yet do they feel their proneness to do so, for there is "the flesh" in them as well as "the spirit;" and when they would do good—evil is present with them.

The psalmist hid the Word of God in his heart—that he might be restrained from evil. The great instrument of sanctification is Divine truth, "the truth as it is in Jesus." "Sanctify them through Your truth," was the prayer of the blessed Savior Himself for His people.

The Word of God not only instructs us in what is right and wrong—it also supplies motives for avoiding the one and pursuing the other, and especially as it unfolds to our view the love of Christ and the all sufficiency of His grace.

Help me, O Lord, like the psalmist, to hide Your Word in my heart! May it dwell richly in me, and may Your Spirit sanctify me by it. May I find it "profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and instruction in righteousness." May I not only be restrained from evil—but may I be constrained to happy loving obedience.

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