A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”

e. See also Col. 2.6-7; John 17.3; 2 Pet. 3.18.

3. God intends for us to go on to a mature, rich understanding of the Word of God, and not remain at the level of a child, Heb. 5.11-14; Eph. 4.9-16.

4. Nothing is more critical than the constancy we give to the Word, that is, of all the disciplines, memorization that leads to meditation appears to have the greatest blessings attached to them.

a. Ps. 119.97-100 – Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. [98]Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. [99] I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. [100] I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.

b. Ps. 119.165 – Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

c. Josh. 1.8 – This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

d. Ps. 1.2-3 – but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. [3] He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its