Protection

Moreover by them Your servant is warned, And in keeping them there is great reward. Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from secret faults. Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression. - Psalm 19v11-13

David continues on to give the benefits of God’s word. Here he deals with the very real universal problem of sin.

By God’s word we find warning. There is great reward in keeping them. Apart from them we can’t really understand our errors. There are secret faults that only God’s word can reveal. We can sin by presumption, and only God’s word can hold us back from them. Sin will have dominion apart from God’s word. It is only in the word of God that we can find blamelessness and the ability to be innocent.

I think that one of the reasons that we have so much trouble with win is that we do not heed the warnings in scripture. The reason we do not heed the warnings of scripture is that we don’t spend enough time there. This is especially true when it comes to the sins of the heart that no one else really knows about.

Sin need not have dominion over us. It has no power over us. Therefore if we are having sin problems there is something we are doing wrong. Our first step to overcoming that is to spend time daily in the word of God. Preaching is great. Teaching is wonderful. Bible studies are fantastic. They all help.

But there is nothing to compare to our own personal study of God’s word. It is in those times that God can deal with the secrets faults and presumptuous sins in our lives. It is there that we discover our own errors.

In keeping the word of God there is great reward. The reward is much more profitable than any amount of gold. There is much more satisfaction than the sweetest honey.

What sort of rewards are we going after today?