Vs.168 —I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, For all my ways are before You.

William Gurnall:

“All my ways are before thee.” Walk Christian, in the view of God’s omniscience; say to thy soul, cave, videt Deus; take heed God seeth. It is under the rose, as the common phrase is, that treason is spoken, when subjects think they are far enough from their king’s hearing; but did such know the prince to be under the window, or behind the hangings, their discourse would be more loyal. This made David so upright in his walking: “I have kept thy precepts, for all my ways are before thee.” If Alexander’s empty chair, which his captains, when they met in counsel, set before them, did awe them so as to keep them in good order; how helpful would it be to set before ourselves the fact that God is looking upon us! The Jews covered Christ’s face, and then buffeted him: Mark 14:65. So does the hypocrite; he first says in his heart, God sees not, or at least forgets that he sees, and then he makes bold to sin against him; like that foolish bird, which runs her head among the reeds, and thinks herself safe from the fowler, as if because she did not see her enemy, therefore he could not see her. Te mihi abscondam, non me tibi (Augustine). I may hide thee from my eye, but not myself from thine eye. (Spurgeon, C. H. (2009). The treasury of David: Psalms 111-119 (Vol. 5, p. 432). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.)

Prayer:

I keep Your precepts and Your testimonies, for all my ways are before You. O’ God, my God, You have led me from fearing Your omnipresence and omniscience, to loving it and praising You. I find exceeding comfort and joy when I remember that all my ways are before You. This is a harbor for my whole being. None of my ways are out of Your sight. None of my sorrows, pains, despair, questions, or problems are unknown to You. All the works of my hands. All the failures and futility; they are known. It is all so obvious, isn’t it? That I need Thee every hour. Your grace and mercy must flow over and through me without constraint. And because of Your great love towards me, I know that You will provide all that I need every hour. Blessed be the God who loves and keeps. Blessed is my heavenly Father who knows my every way, thought, and step, even before I plan it. What comfort; what joy; what peace.