Psalm 119j - Yodh - Let Your Compas-sions Come To Me - Christian Music Videos

Section 10 of 22 set to music. All eight verses of this section of Psalm 119 begin with Yodh (KJV: JOD) the 10th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. - (High Resolution version available at zcpress.org/psalm 119)

I love how this section of Psalm 119 begins. It acknowledges that God is the originator and architect of my life. --Your hands have made me and formed me...-- but then it adds an appeal to God because of that fact: --...give me understanding to learn Your commands.-- We must have the Spirit of God within us in order to understand His commands. Natural intelligence is not sufficient. The natural, carnal mind will twist the commands of God in such a way that they can be kept by the Godless efforts of natural flesh and blood. That kind of --keeping-- of the Law leads to pride, but the new God-inspired keeping leads to a fellowship and rejoicing between those who share that reverence for that keeping power that comes from God alone. Twice this section refers to --those who fear You,-- and the rejoicing and the turning to one another that follows. The chorus, --Let Your compas-sions come to me THAT I MAY LIVE,-- brings Gospel (good news) comfort just in the utterance of the words. Without the compassion of God we are lost and dead to Him. Yes, the precepts of God are worthy to be meditated on continually (day and night as another Psalm says), but without the indwelling of God Himself to assist in and inspire the meditation, then even THAT is vanity.