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Monday... It is so good to look back and then ahead.


Psalm 119:65-66 (NLT), "You have done so many good things for me, LORD, just as you promised. I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgement and knowledge."

Monday... It is so good to look back and then ahead.

It really is. There can be in looking back confidence building for what is ahead.

That is what the Psalmist did in Psalm 119:65-66 (NLT). He writes, "You have done so many good things for me, LORD, just as you promised. I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgement and knowledge."


Now the Evil One wants us to look back but he wants us to only see the bad. And of course there is some bad. And so many only see the bad and if that is all they see then that is what they will see in their future. Again the Psalmist says in verse 65, "You have done so many good things for me, LORD." And then he says, "just as you promised." Our looking back on the good things brings us to remember what God has promised and that he can be trusted.

Verses 37-38 gives us good advice It says, "Turn my eyes from worthless things and give me life through your word. Reassure me of your promise made to those who fear you." Now he cannot reassure us if we are looking only at the bad.

Now verse 71 says, "My suffering was good for me, for it taught me to pay attention to your decrees." And that is so important. That is seeing good in something that we could call bad.

Verse 66 says, "I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgement and knowledge." And oh how much we need that. Verse 73 says, "You made me; you created me. Now give me the sense to follow your commands."

Now Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible. There are 176 verses in this Psalm. Now I read a Psalm a day until I come to Psalm 119 and I break it down into 30 + verses plus continuing my Psalm of the day. There are 150 Psalms and I read a Psalm depending upon the date so I can read the whole Psalms in 5 months. Now today is the first day of the fifth month in my cycle of reading the Psalms so I read a portion of Psalm 119 and also Psalm 121. I said that to say, there is so much in Psalm 119 and it needs to be broken down to really get the benefit of it.

What I'm saying is, take some time in reading this Psalm. There is so much encouragement in it. Now I did also read today Psalm 121 and verses 1-2 (MSG) are very important to me. They say, "I look up to the mountains; does my strength come from mountains? No, my strength comes from GOD who made heaven, and earth, and mountains." Yes, I love that.

Again here in Psalm 119 it says that it is so good to look back and then ahead. Yes, God wants to speak to us today and he does it through his Spirit and his Word. Yes, yes! #todaysvbeginning





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