Your Word Is A Lamp To My Feet Series

1.5 My Greatest Habit

Again, my greatest single habit is to read the Bible each and every day. My reading of God’s Word has saved me from more heartache…

… given me more wisdom…

… protected me from more mistakes…

...given me more comfort…

… and provided me with more encouragement than anything else I’ve done in life.

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path” (Psalm 119:105).

1.6 Be Honest

Be honest with yourself for a moment: If you are not in the habit of listening to what God has to say and letting God speak to you every day, you believe you can make it on your own and do life by yourself. If you are not in the habit of listening to what God has to say and letting God speak to you every day, you don't need God’s help or you believe that what God has to say is not just that important. Now if you deny that, then what single possible could you have for not reading, studying, and meditating on the Bible?

Again, one thing the Bible has in common with every book that has ever been written is it is absolutely useless if it stays closed.

There is not a day in your life that you do not need to hear from God. There is not a day in your life that you do not need to listen to God.

1.7 Wisdom for Every Part of Life

Look at the what the first thing the ancient Hebrew king was to do when he sat on his throne: “And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by the Levitical priests. 19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them…” (Deuteronomy 17:18-19).

Imagine the President sitting down at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, taking a quill pen to start copying out in Hebrew long hand the ancient words of the Torah. What a sight that would be! He’s supposed to copy out the Bible, or some significant chunk of it, and then he’s supposed to read it … every day. Every day that’s what he’s supposed to do. He’s supposed to copy it, keep it nearby so it’s with him all the time, and then read it every day. That’s how valuable the Bible is to life. The Bible isn’t just religious wisdom or good thoughts for Sunday. The Bible is everyday wisdom and sound thinking for all of life.

Imagine if you took a new job and you sat down at your new job to write out the Ten Commandments. That way you can read it and keep it close to you every single day.

1. I Meditate On Your Word All the Day

2. I Meditate On Your Word During Tough Times

“I am severely afflicted;

give me life, O Lord, according to your word!

110 The wicked have laid a snare for me,

but I do not stray from your precepts” (Psalm 119:107, 110).

We don’t know who wrote Psalm 119 and we don’t know when he wrote Psalm 119. We do know that when Psalm 119, this guy was facing some real challenges. But we know this: he was facing some real personal challenges.

2.1 Stress and Anxiety

Life can deal us with some serious setbacks. Max Lucado writes, “Airplanes fall out of the sky. Bull markets go bear. Terrorists will terrorize. And good people do turn bad.” Often we are paralyzed by anxiety and stress when these occur.