READ Psalm 119:97–104. 97 Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long. 98 Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies. 99 I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. 100 I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts. 101 I have kept my feet from every evil path so that I might obey your word. 102 I have not departed from your laws, for you yourself have taught me. 103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path.
THE WORD OF WISDOM. Wisdom is knowing the right path to take in every situation (verse 101). Nothing provides it like the Word of God. Neither scholarship and research (verse 99) nor sophistication and accomplishment (verse 100) can tell you as much about the human heart, human nature, and the ways of the world. Both Jesus (Luke 10:21) and Paul (1 Corinthians 1:18–25) point out that the Gospel tends to be rejected by the knowledgeable and high ranking, but embraced by the needy and the humbled. Wisdom, then, comes not to people who merely learn the facts of the Bible. It appears to those who humbly receive it in love (verse 97), obedience (verse 101), and delight (verse 103).
Prayer: Lord, your Word is full of “infinite sweetness! Let my heart [savor] every letter.”128 It has a medicine for every wound. Teach me how not just to learn but to savor and relish the teachings of your Word. Amen.