I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
Psalm 119:59 belongs to a psalm that exalts God's law, where His testimonies are presented as delight and counsel and as the guide for life. Thoughtful reflection on one's own conduct leads to turning the feet toward those testimonies and ordering the life by them. God's Word defines right and wrong and supplies the principles by which life is to be directed, so that considering one's ways results in walking in His testimonies.
This turning is the choice to abandon self-directed plans in order to follow God's guidance. It is made by breaking with Satan's influence, coming to Jesus, resisting the urge to draw back, and dying to self. It follows breaking with the powers of darkness, resisting the pull of the flesh, making wrongs right, and dying to self through coming to Jesus. Turning the feet into the way of God's commandments means more than professing obedience, for His precepts must be practiced in daily life and the truth must sanctify the life.
The same turning calls for thinking carefully while working for God and for training the mind through Scripture. That training comes by storing its principles and remembering its teachings so that God's word becomes a harmonious whole. The turning is seen in Sabbath-keepers who stepped away from the multitude that made void God's law and chose the way of His commandments despite obstacles, reproach, and loss. The verse points out the sacredness of God's law and is read with solemn earnestness as a warning that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly interfere and will no longer acquit the wicked.
Psalm 119:59 belongs to a psalm that exalts God's law, where His testimonies are presented as delight and counsel and as the guide for life. Thoughtful reflection on one's own conduct leads to turning the feet toward those testimonies and ordering the life by them. God's Word defines right and wrong and supplies the principles by which life is to be directed, so that considering one's ways results in walking in His testimonies.
This turning is the choice to abandon self-directed plans in order to follow God's guidance. It is made by breaking with Satan's influence, coming to Jesus, resisting the urge to draw back, and dying to self. It follows breaking with the powers of darkness, resisting the pull of the flesh, making wrongs right, and dying to self through coming to Jesus. Turning the feet into the way of God's commandments means more than professing obedience, for His precepts must be practiced in daily life and the truth must sanctify the life.
The same turning calls for thinking carefully while working for God and for training the mind through Scripture. That training comes by storing its principles and remembering its teachings so that God's word becomes a harmonious whole. The turning is seen in Sabbath-keepers who stepped away from the multitude that made void God's law and chose the way of His commandments despite obstacles, reproach, and loss. The verse points out the sacredness of God's law and is read with solemn earnestness as a warning that the wickedness of the world has reached the point where the Lord will certainly interfere and will no longer acquit the wicked.