To the new comers to this blog: Each day I am posting the consecutive verse from Psalm 119. This Psalm is one prayer after another, all of which are relevant, needed, and instructive. As seen below, I will include a prayer to add to your prayers each day from the verse of the day, and I’ll drop some commentary on the verse to help with our understanding. Pray with the understanding, right? So says 1 Corinthians 14:15.

Vs. 8 –  I will keep Your statutes; Oh, do not forsake me utterly!

Verse 8.—This verse, being the last of this portion, is the result of his meditation concerning the utility and necessity of the keeping the law of God. Here take notice:—1. Of his resolution, “I will keep thy statutes.” II. Of his prayer, “O forsake me not utterly.” It is his purpose to keep the law; yet because he is conscious to himself of many infirmities, he prays against desertion. In the prayer more is intended than Is expressed. “O forsake me not;” he means, strengthen me in this work; and if thou shouldst desert me, yet but for a while, Lord, not for ever; if in part, not in whole, Four points we may observe hence:—1. That it is a great advantage to come to a resolution as to a course of godliness. 2. Those that resolve upon a course of obedience have need to fly to God’s help. 3. Though we fly to God’s help, yet sometimes God may withdraw, and seem to forsake us. 4. Though God seem to forsake us, and really doth so in part; yet we should pray that it may not be a total and utter desertion.—Thomas Manton.

Prayer:

It is my desire to keep Your statutes both and night. I know that it doesn’t look like it, and so it is because I sometimes turn from them. I am sorry for such dishonor and disobedience towards You, Father. Thank you, But I also have rest that even though I fall, I do not fall altogether. Thy love for me has been shown in the Son of Thy Love.