Visualize What Comfortable Is 

This post’s passage reference: Psalm 119:13-18.

I have been moving things around a little bit here. With no field vision and very little peripheral vision, I can’t make big changes at one time. I stand the chance of causing myself to have a fall. I moved a single foot stool around the other day and tripped over it. I did a “Please don’t fall! Please don’t fall!” dance for a few seconds. I did not fall, but I did end up with a few sore muscles that I didn’t even know were there the next day. That was a bit uncomfortable…and if there is anything we like, it is to be comfortable. 

With just a little moving around I have managed to create three different spaces throughout the house that are comfortable and cozy. I will spend my quiet time and/or study time in one of those spots each day. 

We really do like to get in places in our lives that are comfortable, not just physically, as in a big ole cozy chair, but with how we live our lives. We are comfortable doing the same things, eating the same foods, and keeping the same routines. For me, comfortable feels safe. For a lot of people comfortable is just habit, or what they do because that is all the time they have. 

For a lot of people, their comfortable schedules do not include time to be in God’s Word on a regular basis. We see the psalmist in Psalm 119:13-18, reveling in His love for God’s Word. He shares about the way he speaks it aloud with others, telling them about God’s judgements—His decrees, so they would hear and learn. 

To the writer of this Psalm, God’s testimonies gave him joy as the greatest riches would. They took the time to contemplate on His precepts and desired to honor His ways. They found sheer pleasure when they could take the time to examine God’s statutes. He said they stuck with him and he would not forget them. 

In verse 17, he petitioned God to have mercy on him, as he considered himself God’s servant. His desire was to live so that He could continue to learn from and keep God’s Word. His prayer was for God to allow his eyes to be open to hidden things from His Law that He desired to show him. Deep within his heart, he knew there were things written that are wondrous and amazing! 

Wow! That sounds like the kind of comfortable that would please God. 

The challenge, the real challenge within this passage for us, in our “super noisy, on the go all the time, fast paced world” could be finding the time to sit quietly with God’s Word and drink it in. It may not be that we don’t have the desire. It may be what position that desire has on our list of priorities. We can’t just have the desire to study God’s Word, we need to ask God to help us make space within our lives. Then get in there and carefully study the Words that God has gifted us with. They are the Words of life. 

How can we apply this passage to our lives? To apply this to our lives we must first make time, even a little time, to carefully study God’s Word. Meditate on it. Find joy in it. Fill your heart and your mind with it. But don’t stop there. Let it also be on your lips as you tell others what you have learned. In short, inhale the amazing fragrance of God’s Word into your very being and then share it and live it out. 

What does this mean to my Faith? I can feel my faith strengthened when I spend time in God’s Word and find that the principles He is teaching me really are making my life better, fuller. The more I understand His laws and the reasons for them the more I see how they make me strong and keep me from harm. 

Lord, I have to praise You day-by-day as You teach me more and more that shows me Your love. I thank You for instructions on how to live an ordered life. I guess You made me that way. I like rules. I like order.  I know that if I follow them they will keep me from harm. I trust You with my future and my eternity. Help me to visualize what comfortable looks like, but let it always be surrounded by You!

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“13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. 14 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. 15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. 17 Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live, and keep thy word. 18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”  Psalm 119:13-18 (KJV) 

“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.” Psalm 1:2 (KJV)

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I feel that since God has given me the gift of this platform, I must always tell you about my Jesus.  

What is your relationship to the all-knowing God of the universe?  Do you know Jesus? Do you know the peace that can come only from an intimate relationship with Him?  You can know Him.  Jesus Christ, God’s Son, born into human flesh, sinless, crucified and giving His life freely, buried, arisen on the third day, will come into your life and change the outcome of your eternity.  You just have to be willing to believe and accept His truth.  

Here is an excellent website that can give you additional information about making your decision for Jesus Christ!  PeaceWithGod.net

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