Father, thank You for Your grace and Your mercy to us. Thank You for the opportunity to be able to fellowship with one another, to be able to encourage each other, and to be able to spend time studying Your Word. And Father, I just ask that You would grow us in Christ, that You advance our understanding of who You are and who You've called us to be. And that You would equip us by Your Word to live for the glory and the praise of Your name. And it's in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Well, tonight we come to the section of Psalm 119 and verses 9-16 which we're going to be covering tonight, they highlight the importance of the guarding power of the Word of God. How do we have a pure devotion for the glory of the Lord? How do we have a pure pure heart, seeking his praise and honor in all things." We know fundamentally that's something that is brought about in us by the power of God working through the gospel whereby we are brought near to himself. were made pure by the message of redemption in the Lord Jesus Christ. Not by our own efforts, not by our own strength, but through the grace of the Lord Jesus. Now that's the Lord's work in saving us by the gospel, and then over the course of growing in Him in sanctification, it's the purity of the Word of God that is at work in our hearts and in our lives by the power of the Spirit that guards our path in the way of devotion to Jesus that we are to go. And that's what we're going to see on PATH tonight. And what that means is that in terms of our action, in terms of what we are to be pursuing to have a life of devotion to Christ, we need to be running wholeheartedly to the Word. We need to be running wholeheartedly to His Word, knowing Him through the power of Scripture. That is how God leads His people down the path of faithfulness. But we've all experienced the opposite of that as well, right? The opposite of the faithful path, the opposite of the path that is pleasing to the Lord, and walking down the path of sin and rebellion. Obviously, every Christian is still fighting and dwelling sin on this side of heaven. If you want a good cross-reference on that, you can go read Romans 7 in your own time, where you see the Apostle Paul talking about his own fight against the flesh. But what we need to be reminded of and what we're going to see over the course of this passage in Psalm 119 is that we are fighting against falling down the rebellious way, but we are actually more than that. We're actively seeking to live a life equipped to bring God glory and praise. And the Word of God is sufficient to both guard us from the wrong path and guide us down the right path. And that's what we're going to see here this evening. So let's read this text tonight. Psalm 119, verses 9 through 16. Psalm 119, 9 through 16. Now this is your trivia question for what we covered last week. You see that word Beth to start this passage? Is that a woman's name? No. It's the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet. So, there you go. How can a young man keep his way pure? by guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you, let me not wander from your commandments. I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes. With my lips I declare all the rules of your mouth, and the way of your testimonies I delight as much as in all riches. I will meditate on your precepts, and fix my eyes on Your ways. I will delight in Your statutes. I will not forget Your Word." Verse 9 opens with a very important question. How can a young man keep his way pure? Now, don't misunderstand this. This psalm has rich application for every season of life. not just the young man. But this is a profound question that he opens this psalm with. You look at someone maybe as a young teenager who fits this bill of a young man. All the pitfalls of a fallen world, all the sins of the flesh, the desires of youth, and the psalmist looks at that person and they're asking, how do you live a life of pure devotion to the Lord? How do you live a life of pure faithfulness to Christ? And we understand something of that challenge, don't we? We know the ever-present temptations of the flesh and the world and the enemy. We've all seen men and women seemingly start well, seemingly profess well, only to lose their way. We've seen men even be seemingly faithful in ministry only towards the very end. tragic sin that have been kept hidden for years. And yet others, we see, they've been saved by grace, they don't live a perfect life, right? They don't live a life that is absolutely free from sin, but they're constantly bringing their sin before the Lord, they're growing in holiness, and you look at the track record of their life and you see faithfulness to the Lord Jesus Christ by the divine power of His grace. They fought the good fight. And that's the path that we want to walk as well. And that's what he's getting at with this question. How do we live that kind of a life? How does the young man keep his way pure? Well, notice the answer. By guarding it according to your word. This is not just a answer. This is the only true answer. Full stop, right? This is it. This is the path. Guarding according to the Word of God. It is being renewed by the power of the Scripture. Day after day. Why? Because this is how Christ works. Because this is the revelation of God that He uses to change hearts and souls. Whenever life's hardest moment sits, when the hardest question sits, when you need clarity about God, when you need direction, when you need to be confronted about your sin, when you need to be encouraged and comforted, when you need to know who God is, it is only the sufficient power of God's Word that is able to give the answer to all of these questions and to give guidance. And so this is foundationally important, and I think it's very important in our current evangelical age Young people don't need more entertainment to live a life that is pleasing to God. For that matter, souls of any age don't need more entertainment to live a life that is pleasing to God. They don't need to be coaxed into it. They need the piercing truth of the Word of God applied to their hearts and souls. It's what every single one of us needs. And the idea here is that as you're coming to the Word, And as it's guarding your path, what it's doing is it's changing you at the level of your heart and your soul. So look with me at Hebrews chapter 4. Look with me at Hebrews chapter 4. This shows us something of the penetrating power of God's Word. That we're coming to the Scripture. The young man is keeping his way here by running to the Word of God. What is it that the Word of God is able to do? Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12 shows us. For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, notice, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. It is the Scripture that penetrates down to the heartland. It is the Scripture that goes down to the root. If you want to see yourself rightly, come to the mirror of God. Right? It is only then that we see God rightly and that we see ourselves and where we need to grow and where we need to be changed. And that begins internal and it works out external. And you see this kind of a heart in verse 10 in Psalm 119. Notice this, he's getting at this heart level reality in Psalm 119 verse 10. With my whole heart I seek you, let me not wander from your commandments." The emphasis of the heart is powerfully important in this passage. Because it's showing the change that the Lord has brought about. That now that the believer has been saved by the gospel, now that the believer has been redeemed, the outflow of that is that you have a desire to know God. You have a desire to come to a deeper knowledge of God. You hunger for this, to delight in Him, to be brought into greater submission to God Himself, and that happens through the Word. We talked about, in verse 7, last week, that this work of the Word leads us to praise God. It leads us to actually praise God, but what I think that we see in verse 10 is that the work of the word leads us to want to please God. Right? That instead of wandering down our own path and going our own way and simply living according to the sinful desires and pleasures of our own flesh, now we have a heart that is captive to God himself. Right? One of us, we see this kind of a heart in our own lives, where we long and we're praising God, we're hungering after the Word and we're being grown by the grace of God in these things. And you know, I think if you take these first two verses and you actually look in verse 10, you have this word, wonder. In verse nine, you have this passage being addressed to a young man, and I think you take those two together and you have a very interesting metaphor. Does anybody else enjoy watching children play? Yes, everybody, hopefully, right? We all like watching children play. I mean, I love watching nieces and nephews and the kids of the church. Well, have you ever watched six or eight or 10 or 12-year-old boy play? Do they stay on the same thing very long? No, what do they do? They wander around, right? I'll watch them sometime, and I'm like, man, like, attention span, right? Like, what's going on here? Like, so much energy, so much energy. They just, they wander around. But what's part of the process of growing from being a boy and a young man to a man? You learn to channel that, right? You learn to grow and not just wandering around aimlessly, but actually submitting to God and using your God-given energy and strength in a way that is honoring to Him. You get a job and you work hard. You marry a woman, if that's God's calling, and you provide for her and you protect her and you seek to invest in her. But what is the path of the sinful flesh? That young man, if he's not taught these things by the Scripture through the power of the Gospel, will wander aimlessly, sin from sin from sin to sin. And it becomes a picture for them. And that's exactly what the path that the psalmist wants to avoid. That wandering down the desires of the flesh away from the pure devotion of the commandments of God. And what is it that keeps that wandering from happening? Christ working through the gospel. Christ working through the word. And giving us a heart not to wonder but to pursue Him. To pursue Him. And you see that in verse 10, he is addressing God, saying, let me not wander from your commandments. Right? He's saying this, and it is a note of dependence on the Lord's power to be at work in his life to prevent this. Now even as he's looking to the Lord's power, even as he is hoping in the action that God is going to do in that way, he himself is also going to do something faithful, the psalmist, right? Look at verse 11. This is where we come again to the reality of what's going on in the soul. I have stored up your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. The storing up of the word of God. How did that happen? Did the Holy Spirit just zap me with Bible knowledge? No, right? It's not like, boom, you're zapped. Now you have all of Psalm 119 memorized tomorrow. You have it in your heart, you're good to go. No, this is something that the psalmist immersed himself in, right? This is something that the psalmist actually pursued. That of course, God himself is the one who opens the mind to understand the scripture. We understand the sovereign grace of God at work in salvation. and then He calls us as His people on the basis of what He has done in redeeming our souls to pursue the knowledge of Him, and we are actually to intentionally seek to store the Word of God up into our heart. That takes effort. That takes time. That takes energy to not only focus on memorizing the Scripture. Memorizing it is one thing, right? But cherishing it and then living it out? Right? To do all the above? That's something where you're putting time into this. You're coming to God with a heart of prayer and devotion, seeking His power in this. And this is a goal for all of us as believers that we see in verse 11. To strive after, the storing up of the Word of God in our heart. Like I said, that's not an instant thing. You know, I think sometimes we as Christians, we think about something like memorizing scripture or coming to know all the different books of the Bible and studying the word of God. And we live in a culture that it's immediate results, right? And so we think, okay, we're going to have this down in six months. We're going to have this down in two weeks. No, think like 50 years and you're still going to be growing, right? It's a lifelong journey of sanctification. It's a lifelong journey of pursuing Christ. So if you're sitting here thinking, okay, I'm reading verse 11, I need to store up more of the Word of God in my heart memorization, that's good. That's encouraging, right? Don't be discouraged by that. Understand that this is the process of sanctification and growth in the Lord Jesus Christ, and He does that work over the course of time. And it is our role, as we see in this text, right, to seek to pursue the Word of God, steadily growing it. And that may, on the practical side of the storing of the Word of God, that's going to look a little bit different from person to person. You know, some people, they have photographic memories, so they write it down, it's just, it's there. It's instantly there. I don't know about you, I am not one of those people. It does not come that easy. So maybe it's writing the word each week. Maybe it's sharing about it and bringing in a family member or a friend where you're working through this together, right? Maybe it's writing it on a sticky note and putting it on your refrigerator so it's right in your face, but constantly pursuing these things and the storing up of the word of God. And what is it that is his purpose at the end of verse 11? He says, that I might not sin against you. That's His purpose, right? It's not just storing up information for information's sake. It's so that He would be changed to leave the path of sin and to walk faithfully for the Lord Jesus Christ. And so now, this is leading us into v. 12 where we see the psalmist, he's pursuing God with his whole heart. He's storing up the Word of God in his heart, v. 11. And now he says in verse 12, blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes. Who is the ultimate source of all true knowledge? God, right? God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the source of all true knowledge. And I love what you see here, because verse 11, you have a note of his really disciplining himself, of intentionally seeking to store the Word of God, but then in verse 12, You see the praise and the dependence on God, that He recognizes God is the One who needs to teach Him. He's the One who is dependent on being taught by His Creator and Redeemer through His holy Word. And this is the heart that we as His people must have. A heart of recognizing the need for God to open our understanding. for the Spirit of God to be at work in us through the Word deepening our understanding. And that we would look to God and we would say, blessed are you, O Lord, and have this heart of praise. Because we recognize this is the gift of His Word. This is what He's doing in our hearts and in our souls as His people. This is how He's building His church. And it is a blessed work to the worshipful praise of our glorious God. And this is something that we rejoice in as his people. And so he asks that God would teach him further, that God would grow him further. And I think if we come over to the New Covenant Scripture, we begin to see this in even fuller language to where we know this is what God is doing. Is God teaching his people? That's not a question mark. God is teaching His people through His Word. Look at me at 2 Corinthians 4. This is a very encouraging passage where we see this theme. So you come to the New Testament and you see words. Some of these are going to be familiar from our time in the book of Colossians on Sunday morning. You see words like renewal. renewed, transformed, growing in the knowledge of Christ. We come to 2 Corinthians 4, and we look at verses 16-18, and we see something profound that's happening in the life of the believer. So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us beyond all comparison. As we look not to the things that are seen, but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. So there's two key realities going on in this passage. One is that the outer self is wasting away. Amen? Right? I mean, we live in a fallen world, and our bodies are not perfect. And we have a wide degree of ages across this room, and I don't care how old you are, you've had something hurt at some point. And so we all know something about this outer self wasting away. But for the believer, Something very different is happening on the inside. Something very different is happening at the level of the inner man. And this is where we see God's grace. And you see this in verse 16. The outer self is wasting away. Our inner self is being renewed day by day. What a glorious truth that is. You want to talk about the Lord teaching us His statutes? His Word, that's what this verse is talking about. That the Christian, over the course of their life, yes, their body may be deteriorating. Yes, their body may be decaying. But on the inside, they know more of the Lord Jesus Christ. They know more of His grace. They know more of the Word. They're advancing in the faith because their inner man is being renewed by the hope of the Gospel and by the sufficient truth of the Word of God. in Psalm 119, that is what he is praising God for. That he is the blessed God who, think about this, is under no obligation to reveal himself to his people. But He does so in the Word. And not only does He do that, He gives us His Holy Spirit to indwell us, to guide us in the truth of Jesus Christ, so that not only do we know how to read this, but we actually are able to understand it. Because apart from that grace renewing us, we would never be able to know divine truth. And so this leads the psalmist to say, Blessed are you, O Lord. And that is what we should rejoice in, in the life of the church, that yes, all of us, none of us, none of us are yet where we should be in our walk with the Lord and our growth and maturity, but praise God, none of us are where we were. We've been saved and redeemed by grace and we are being sanctified. and in the local church, you have the blessing of not just pursuing that and seeing that in your own life, but seeing that in all of your brothers and sisters who are sitting around you every single week and who you're doing life with every single week. And that should lead us to worship. So we see so far in the psalm, in this section of the psalm, that the psalmist, he's knowing the Word, he's being guarded by the Word, he's storing up the Word, He's praising the Lord. Now look at verse 13. This is another important point. With my lips, I declare all the rules of your mouth. So much of what we've been talking about in this passage has been the work of God in the heart, right? That you're seeking God with your heart. You're storing the Word of God up in your heart. It's the inner transformation of the soul. Well, the reality is, whenever your soul and your heart are changed, your life's going to be changed too. Your life's going to be changed too. And one of the realities of that is that God gives you a desire to speak. He gives his people a desire to speak the truth, right? With my lips, I declare all the rules of your mouth. Now, some of us, speak more than others of us, and some of us are quieter than others, right? Part of that is God-given gifting and design. But the point is that everybody is driven to speak at some level or another. That the heart of the Christian is moved by the work of the Lord, that we see his glory, we see the glory of the gospel, we see the glory of the word of God, and we're not going to keep these things to ourselves. We're not going to keep these things bottled up within ourselves. It's not only about you avoiding sin. It's not only about you bringing pleasure to the Lord. It's also about Him using you in the lives of others to speak truth to them that they might come to know Him and live pleasing to His name as well. And so it is the work of the Lord in our hearts and in our souls that leads us like the psalmist in verse 13 to speak the truth. was obviously also involved in the ability to listen. Because do you notice, he gets to verse 13, right? He's listened to the Word of God first. If you don't listen to the Word of God first, brothers and sisters, I love you, but if we don't listen to the Word of God first, none of us have anything good to say anyway. Right? That's true of me, and that's true of you, it's true of all of us. So the key in this is you listen to the Word of God, and obviously you listen to the people you're speaking to so that then you can apply the truth to their situation. But the more you grow in the Lord, the more you have the wisdom to do this. Look again at the New Covenant picture of this, Ephesians chapter 4. Ephesians chapter 4. Look at verse 25. Look at verse 25. Paul is instructing the church in Ephesus. having put away falsehood, letting one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another." So again, speaking the truth, a fundamental calling of the church. Not just pastors and teachers, the church. Speaking the truth with one another. Publicly through preachers and teachers, amen, but then privately in one-on-one conversation as well. Then we look at verse 29, "...let no corrupting talk come out of your mouth, but only is good for building up as fits the occasion that it may give grace to those who hear. This is what the Lord does in us as his people, that we're growing in the knowledge of the truth, we're growing in the knowledge of the word, but that's not it. We're also growing in the knowledge of how the truth applies to all these different areas of life. all of these different occasions, and then how to speak to individuals who are walking through those situations in order to direct them down a God-honoring path. You know, sometimes you see the opposite of this, and you see a person, and they're in a difficult situation, and then this brother over here, right, they open their mouth, and you're like, man, brother, it would have been better if you just stayed quiet on that one, right? Speaking the truth in love as is fitting to the occasion. This is an area where you have to grow. This is an area where we need the Lord to work and to guide us by the wisdom of His Word. that we would speak wisely and well and skillfully the truth of the Word of God to souls in need of counsel, and that we would also be submissive to that ourselves. Christians to come into our life and speak the truth. But more than that, it's not just doing this in the life of the church, is it? It's also doing this to the unbelieving world, speaking the Gospel. speaking the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. Speaking the rules of the Word of God in Psalm 119, verse 13. That they might be convicted of their sin and flee to Christ by the power of His grace. And the call of the Christian is to do all of the above. All of the above. And so as the Word is working in our hearts, it's moving us to speak in these things. Why is it? Because out of the heart the mouth speaks. Luke 6.45 And so as your heart is changed, now what you're saying is being changed as well. And so this now brings us to verse 14 of Psalm 119. In the way of your testimonies, I delight as much as in all riches. I love this verse. I love this verse because it shows us God's word is so powerful. It doesn't just change your heart. It changes what your heart delights in. It changes what you find joy in. It changes what you treasure, right? The things that you used to think were crazy and dull and boring. totally not worth your time, that you had no delight, and you now find yourself unexplainably desiring them. Right? Unexplainably desiring them. For example, the more a Christian grows in the Word, they find something interesting. They want to know more. The more that they actually desire, that's the process that the Lord is doing. He's tuning their heart to desire what it is that is pleasing to them. But then something else actually begins to happen as well. They not only desire the word, they desire to live out the word. So let me give an illustration of what I'm talking about. Maybe before you were a Christian, You thought the people who went to church every week were nuts, right? You thought, man, those people are crazy. And especially, those people who go to the midweek Bible study, like, man, wow, why are they doing that? Like, that's just, that's crazy. And then you get saved, and you get changed by the power of Jesus in the gospel, and guess what you now want to do? You want to go gather with the people of God and you're hungry for it and you love it and you rejoice in fellowshipping with the saints and worshipping the Lord Jesus Christ. What is that? That's the Lord changing your heart and your soul so that you delight in His testimonies and you delight in actually living out the commandments of God. And this is something that actually takes root in how you live your life. Now, this is where we get introduced in verse 15 to a very important concept that's going to be found all throughout Psalm 119. And it's the biblical concept of meditation. And the biblical concept of meditation helps us to take these truths and sort out how they apply. Look at verse 15. Fix my eyes on your ways. Now, meditation is a word that has been so hijacked by our culture today, that we're so often left wondering, when scripture says meditation, what in the world is it talking about? And really and true, if you begin to look at the culture, the world's idea of meditation, And it's something that is directly opposed to the biblical idea of meditation, directly opposed to it. The culture, along with more Eastern religious practices like Buddhism, they teach meditation simply, it's emptying your mind, right? Meditation is the emptying of your mind. You're letting things go. You're emptying yourself, right? That's not true meditation, okay? That's the exact opposite of biblical meditation. Biblical meditation is filling your mind with divine truth and understanding how it applies. I mean, do you really need to just empty yourself, right? Do we really need people going around this world with empty minds? I mean, you need an empty mind like you need an empty stomach, okay? Right? The mind is meant to be filled. The mind is meant to be filled. And you and I need to be saturated by the truth of God's word. Jay Adams has a very helpful definition of meditation. He gives his thoughts on Psalm 119. Meditation is a matter of relating life to scripture. One must think of how a passage is what the psalmist is talking about. He regards the ways of God shown by the commandments of God with care and concern so as to understand, apply, and be able to implement them. The idea of meditation that is not an inner thing, that is meditation on objective truth that leads to change in one's lifestyle. That is such a helpful point. Because whenever we're talking about meditating on the Word of God, right, if you just want to put that, what is that, nuts and bolts, that's you coming to the page of Scripture, seeing the truth of Scripture, and as we might say here in Arkansas, mulling it over, right? You're chewing on it. You're thinking about it. You're reflecting it. You're asking, how does this apply? Lord, how do I live this out? How do I die to myself in this situation where it's really hard to love my neighbor? And what does that actually mean for me to live this out in a way that is honoring to you? That's biblical meditation. And that's leading to change. And so you might come to a text like, Psalm 119, you think about how it talks about delighting in the Word of God, right? Like we just saw. And then you consider, well, how do I delight in the Word of God? Am I being faithful in this? Where do I delight in the Word of God? Where do I need to grow in this? You're taking God's Word and you're meditating on that truth and you're seeking to grow and applying it to His glory. Or maybe you read another section about loving the church, right? Loving one another and the life of the body. And you're meditating on that. You're studying that. And then you're asking the question, how can I apply this in the local body I'm a part of? And you think, well, you know, this brother or sister, they seem to be going through something hard. So maybe I just need to ask them how I can pray for them. Or maybe I need to take them out to lunch. to buy their coffee and try to invest in them and pour them. All these are, we're taking God's Word, we're meditating on the truth, we're chewing on the truth, and then we're asking the question, we're getting to the application, how do we actually live this out? But I love what verse 15, it also ends by saying, and fix my eyes on your ways. Now, do you notice how that contrasts from what we read earlier? So if you go back to verse 10, What the psalmist wants to avoid is the path of wondering, right? The path of wondering. Now if you have your eyes based on something, right, what does that prevent you from? It prevents you from wondering. I remember years and years, this was a long time ago, whenever I first learned how to drive a riding lawnmower, I was probably like all of eight years old at that point. Right? My dad, he's like, how do you do this? And how do you do it straight? And he's like, you see that tree over there? Just look at that tree and make a straight line for that tree. and then turn around and look at the tree on the other side and fix your eyes on that and make a straight line for that, right? Because if you're focusing on something in the distance, that's gonna keep you straight. But if you don't have something and you're just trying to wing it, you're gonna be doing this all over the place, right? You're gonna be wandering all over the place. What is it that is the fix point for the Christian? It is God himself in the truth of the scripture. It is God that we have our eyes on. We are locked in on Him. We are devoted to Him. We are looking to His praise. We are looking to His glory. We are looking to reveal truth in the Word of God, and that is the direct opposite of wandering down in your own path. What we don't need to do is focus on ourself. That's where we get into trouble. Right? We elevate our own desires. We elevate our own emotions. We get caught up in all of our own feelings in the moment and that leads us to wonder. But the psalmist, he says, fix my eyes on your ways. Fix my eyes on your ways. What an encouraging truth that is for us. To look at Christ. to come to the pages of the Word, see the truth of His character, see the truth of His ways, what He does, and fix our eyes on these things as we go through life. Now this comes through our final verse here in verse 16. I will delight in your statutes. I will not forget your So this section, Psalm 119, it comes back again to this point about delight. So you're focusing on Christ, you're writing to the word, you're soaking in, you're meditating on it, and that's supposed to lead you to actually delight in it. You know, what we delight in actually says much about our spiritual status and maturity, doesn't it? It actually says much about what is going on in our heart. And for us as Christians, we're growing and pursuing delight in God and delight in His Word. That we're completely satisfied and content in Him, regardless of the situation that we face on this earth. And so He's delighting in the statutes, and that leads Him to this final point of resolve, I will not forget Your Word. Now this is not just talking about memory, right? This is not just talk, because you can remember scripture and forget the scripture, right? Just because you remember what it says doesn't mean that you're actually remembering it, if you know what I'm saying. This is talking about actually coming again to the word of God and being directed by it. To put this very practically, when the flesh rises up and you're tempted, Remember the Word of God. When the hard situation in life hits and you need guidance, remember the Word of God. Whenever this brother or sister comes to you with this thing that's going on in their life that's hard and you need direction to be able to speak to them, remember the Word of God. Do not cast it aside. Come to it again and again and again And we do so, why? What leads to this? The change in the heart and the soul that leads you to rightly treasure God's word so that you return to it and delight in it in this way. And so how does the young man keep his way pure? We could answer with one word, scripture. Scripture. Scripture is the path of purity. And I love how you see it. Guarding it according to your word, what does it mean? You seek him with your whole heart. You're storing up the word. You're blessing and praising God, relying on his power to teach you. That's moving you to speak the truth to others. You're finding your delight in his testimonies as much as in all riches. You're considering again and again and again and again these truths and their applications. You're fixed on God. And then you're returning to him and not casting it aside. And this is how we remain devoted to the Lord Jesus Christ by His grace working in our hearts and in our souls through all of these things. Does anybody have any thoughts, any questions before we go into our prayer time here this evening?