Proclamation:
“Seven times a day I praise You for Your
righteous laws. Great peace have those
who love Your law, and nothing can make them stumble.” Psalm 119:164-165 (NIV)
Explanation:
The words of this psalm were written by
King David under the influence of The Holy Spirit of God. This is the twenty-first part, Shin, of this
twenty-two part psalm. David continues to
tell The Lord God how much he loves His laws.
He states that he praises Him seven times each day because of His
laws. Seven times may be a literal
translation or it may mean very often each day.
Application:
I believe that most believers pray several
times each day. Most of us pray in the
morning when we wake up, in the evening before we go to sleep, and before we
eat each meal. That would be four to
five times each day but not seven times.
The Bible says that we ought to always pray, (Luke 18:1 and 21:36) and
His praise should continually be in our mouth. (Psalm 34:1) In order to pray seven times in a day, we
would have to pray at least two or three times more than the traditional or
habitual prayer times. There are those
who say that they pray when they get in their cars before they drive on these
dangerous streets and freeways. I would
suggest that we also pray before we engage anyone in a conversation, before we
answer a question, and before we make a decision. Before we do or say anything, we ought to
pray and ask for God’s help and guidance.
If we did that, maybe we would have great peace in our lives, and maybe
we would not stumble into sin as often as we do.
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