"My lips shall utter praise, when Thou hast taught me Thy statutes."
word for law - statutes; Previous two verses have been a plea to accept and hear his prayers. Now David turns to his continued pracitce of praising the Lord. My lips shall utter praise - we were created to give and bring praise unto the Lord God; I know that many think they were given life for themselves, but that is the lie of Satan. We were created in the image of God, and given this experience of life to glorify Him. Let it be the standard of daily practice to bring glory unto the Lord. I cannot control what others will do, but I can control what my lips will do. I am responsible to make sure that I give praise unto Him, Who is worthy to receive all praise from His creation. And if my lips should cease in uttering praise unto Him, then the rocks would cry out in my place. I will not be replaced by an old rock. I will be careful to make sure that my time is used rightly in daily giving praise unto the Lord. Now this is a conditional verse, and by that I mean that David will utter praise when the Lord does His part. This is found in the last half of this verse. God teaches David and then DAvid responds by uttering praise.
I thank God for all His many blessings. I thank Him for all that He has taught me. But with or without that teaching, I am still required, privileged and ready to give praise unto Him Who is worthy. I find it very little spoken of in many Christians lives today this understanding of giving praise. If you say 'praise' they think you are talking about music. And yes, music does praise the Lord. But praise is one of the functions of prayer unto Him. Gathered before Him we must worship Him. This worship is praising HIm for Who He is and what HE has done. It is declaring His glory. The pracitice of this is hard to find today. I try to tech people in my prayer circles to know God. When you know HIm and Who He is you can praise Him more fully. Then you can see what HE has done in your life. Everything around us is a gift from God and is worthy of praising Him for it. You utter praise for the things that He has done, what HE is doing and what He will do. This is a lifelong pursuit. This will be our eternal privlege to praise Him, Who sits on the throne. When Thou hast taught me Thy statutes - David is waiting for God to teach him the Word of God; The Word is God. The Word is spoken unto us by God, the HOly Spirit. He brings to our minds and hearts the awareness of what is found in the Word.
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