Psalm 19:7-9
Read verses 7-9. Find all of the adjectives.
Perfect, trustworthy, right, radiant, pure, firm, righteous.
What’s he talking about in verse 7? And in the beginning of the other verses?(Statutes, precepts, commands…)
The Law, the Torah, the first five books of our Bible. (Also translated, instruction or teaching.) It’s the story of God’s work in the Jewish people. Creation, the fall, God’s covenant with Abraham, the story of God’s work in the lives of Abraham and his descendants, bondage, rescue, the wilderness, the Ten Commandments, and Israel’s story.
Do you have a teachable heart? What does David’s willingness to be instructed by God’s law say about him?
Read Psalm 25:4-5. Notice a theme with David?
A thousand years after King David lived, Paul quoted God on David’s character, “I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.” (Acts 13:22)
Read Psalm 78:70-72:
70 He chose David his servant
and took him from the sheep pens;
71 from tending the sheep he brought him
to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
of Israel his inheritance.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
with skillful hands he led them.
How would be cultivate hearts like David’s?