“Your testimonies are wonderful;
Therefore my soul observes them.
The unfolding of Your words gives light;
It gives understanding to the simple.
I opened my mouth wide and panted,
For I longed for Your commandments.
Turn to me and be gracious to me,
After Your manner with those who love Your name.
Establish my footsteps in Your word,
And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.
Redeem me from the oppression of man,
That I may keep Your precepts.
Make Your face shine upon Your servant,
And teach me Your statutes.
My eyes shed streams of water,
Because they do not keep Your law.” (Psalm 119:129-136 NASB1995)
The testimonies of God are the Holy Scriptures (Genesis to
Revelation). They include God’s commandments (Old Covenant and New Covenant)
for his people to obey. We who believe in Jesus Christ obey his commands to us under
the New Covenant God has with his people Israel today, consisting of both Jew
and Gentile by physical birth who have trusted in Jesus Christ to be Lord and
Savior of our lives. We are the body of Christ, his church.
But Lord means that he is now Owner-Master of our lives, and
our lives are now surrendered to him to do his will, committed to obey our Lord
in all his ways. And Savior means that he has saved us out of our lives of
slavery to sin so we will now follow him in obedience to his commands, and we
will no longer walk in sin, making sin our practice. Now righteousness,
holiness, moral purity, and obedience to our Lord are what we are living, in
practice.
And not only are we to be living the word of God in our
daily lives, but we are to be messengers of the Lord who take the message of
his gospel to the people of the world. But the gospel message that we should be
sharing with the people of the world is not the one which is so popularized in
the USA today. But it is the one taught by Jesus and by his New Testament
apostles in the New Testament Scriptures, taught in the correct biblical
context.
So, what the psalmist described here about the Scriptures,
and about his relationship with God, is so fitting to what our relationships
with Jesus Christ should look like today, and how we should be viewing the
Scriptures with regard to how we should be applying their teachings to our
daily walks of faith in obedience to our Lord and to his commands. For he loved
the Lord’s commands, and he obeyed the Lord and his commands, in life practice.
And this also parallels over to what Jesus and his New
Testament apostles taught as the gospel of our salvation. For faith in Jesus
Christ, which is biblical faith, will result in us obeying the commandments of
God, in practice, and in us dying with him to sin, and us now living in holiness
and in righteousness, and no longer as slaves to sin. For Jesus Christ truly is
the Master of our lives, and our lives are committed to walking in his ways.
So we need to understand that faith in Jesus Christ, which
is biblical, will result in us dying with Christ to sin, and us walking (in
conduct) in obedience to our Lord and to his commandments, in practice, no
longer as slaves to sin, but now as servants of the Lord who are doing his
will, and who are sharing the truth of the gospel with others for their
salvation. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, we don’t
have life with God.
[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John
6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; 1
Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32;
Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 12:1-2;
1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]
The Lord’s Anointed
Based off Isaiah 61
An Original Work / December 16, 2011
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
The Spirit of the
Sov’reign Lord on me;
Anointed to preach
the Good News;
Sent me to bind up
the brokenhearted;
Proclaim freedom for
the captives.
He sent me to preach
release for pris’ners
Who are walking in
sin’s darkness;
Proclaim God’s grace
to all men who’ll listen;
And tell them about
God’s judgments;
Comfort all who
mourn;
Give crowns of
beauty;
Oil of gladness and
thanksgiving.
They will be called
oaks of God’s righteousness,
A planting of our
Savior, God,
For the display of
our Lord’s splendor, and
They will rebuild
God’s holy church.
God will renew them,
and will restore them,
And you’ll be called
priests of the Lord.
You will be
ministers of our God, and
You will rejoice in
salvation.
The Lord loves
justice;
He is faithful to
Reward those who are
seeking Him.
I delight greatly in
the Lord;
My soul rejoices in
my Savior, God.
He has clothed me
with His salvation,
And in a robe of His
righteousness.
He has given me
priestly garments to wear,
As the bride of
Jesus Christ.
As the garden of our
Lord and Savior,
He causes us to grow
in Him.
He makes
righteousness,
Praise, and
thanksgiving
Spring up before all
the nations.
Establish My
Footsteps in Your Word
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