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Psalm 119:97
How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
95The wicked have waited for me, to destroy me. I will consider your statutes.
96I have seen a limit to all perfection, but your commands are boundless. MEM
97How I love your law! It is my meditation all day.
98Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.
99I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.
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The words “all day” stretch love for God’s law beyond a moment of reading into the thoughts that fill ordinary hours.
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Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Armies.Both writers speak of God’s words with affection: the psalmist loves God’s law, and Jeremiah receives his words with joy.
Joshua 1:8This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written …Both passages describe meditation on God’s law extending through the day; Joshua also names obedience as its purpose.
Romans 12:2Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of …Both passages concern the life of the mind in relation to what God wants.
Psalm 119:11I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.Both verses describe keeping God’s word within: one through meditation throughout the day, the other through storing it in the heart.
Psalm 1:2but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.Both verses join delight in God’s law with meditation that extends beyond a single moment.
Proverbs 2:10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.Both passages describe inward pleasure in what guides a person: God’s law in the psalm, wisdom and knowledge in Proverbs.
Psalm 119:47I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.Both verses express love for God’s commands, connecting that love with delight or sustained meditation.
Psalm 119:159Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, LORD, according to your loving kindness.Both verses tell God of love for his instruction; verse 159 adds a plea for life according to his loving kindness.
Deuteronomy 17:19It shall be with him, and he shall read from it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law and …Both passages give God’s law an enduring place in a person’s life through repeated reading or meditation.
Deuteronomy 6:6–9These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;Both passages describe God’s instruction occupying a person’s inner life, whether on the heart or in meditation.
Proverbs 18:1A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.The link is limited: one speaks of love for God’s law, the other warns against rejecting sound judgment.
Acts 17:11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether …Both passages describe sustained attention to Scripture, through meditation in the psalm and daily examination in Acts.
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Love for God’s law has room in the hours between reading it. Here, affection takes the form of thought returning to what God has said.
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