Vs. 130 — The entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple.

Charles H. Spurgeon:

No sooner do they gain admission into the soul than they enlighten it: what light may be expected from their prolonged indwelling! Their very entrance floods the mind with instruction, for they are so full, so clear; but, on the other hand, there must be such an “entrance,” or there will be no illumination. The mere hearing of the word with the external ear is of small value by itself, but when the words of God enter into the chambers of the heart then light is scattered on all sides. The word finds no entrance into some minds because they are blocked up with self-conceit, or prejudice, or indifference; but where due attention is given, divine illumination must surely follow upon knowledge of the mind of God. Oh, that thy words, like the beams of the sun, may enter through the window of my understanding, and dispel the darkness of my mind! (Spurgeon, C. H. (2009). The treasury of David: Psalms 111-119 (Vol. 5, p. 378). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.)

James Hamilton (1814–1867):

A profane shopman crams into his pocket a leaf of a Bible, and reads the last words of Daniel: “Go thou thy way, till the end be, for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days,” and begins to think what his own lot will be when days are ended. A Göttingen Professor opens a big printed Bible to see if he has eyesight enough to read it, and alights on the passage, “I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not,” and in reading it the eyes of his understanding are enlightened. Cromwell’s soldier opens his Bible to see how far the musket-ball has pierced, and finds it stopped at the verse: “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth; and walk in the ways of thine heart and the sight of thine eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.” And in a frolic the Kentish soldier opens the Bible which his broken-hearted mother had sent him, and the first sentence that turns up is the text so familiar in boyish days: “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden,” and the weary profligate repairs for rest to Jesus Christ.

Prayer:

The entrance of Your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple. Grant us, all the saints in Christ, an understanding in and of every word that proceeds from Your mouth. And as Your word unfolds within, may it then be transforming light; illuminating light; piercing light; exposing light; and liberating light in the Son.

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