"Let Thine hand help me; for I have chosen Thy precepts."
word for law - precepts; A continued prayer and statement of his loyality to God. Let Thine hand help me - word study, help; There is much use of this word 'let' found in this Psalm. Each aspect of that is a precious truth. He is talking unto God as he writes and prays, 'Let Thine hand O God' do something. what is it that he wants God to do? He wants the Lord to help him. It is a short prayer often, one of the shortest in the Bible, 'Help me'. It is found only a few times in Scritpure. Peter when he was sinking in the water after he took his eyes off the Lord, cried out and said, 'Help me'. And often in times of difficutly and tragedy, the urgency fo the need and the situation at hand presents us with only a brief window to pray like this. But David knows where his help is to be found. Many have not learned this lesson yet. They are still looking at their own hand to save them. They are still looking at another man's hand to help them. 'Let Thine hand' save me, help me, heal me, rescue me, provide for me, guide me, protect me, and on and on it goes to the soul that knows how mighty His hand is.
How vast is that study in the SCriptures as well that looks at verse like this one, that tells us of some of God's features that mirrors our own. Does God have a hand? an arm? ARe we not made in the image of God? Facial, body, arms, legs, the featrues should mirror our Creator. Yet, we knwo we are not to make any graven image. How vile to those that made a god of a bug, an animal, or some other trivial thing of this life, far beneath the image of man, who was made in the image of God. God is God, and He is spirit and truth, and in eternity we shall see Hima s He is. but until, that time let us see in verses like this that it is there for our finite minds to grasp the truths that God has revealed to us to help us and allow for us to know more of Him. Now, His hand is marvellous. LEt us consider what He does with His hand to help us in our daily walk and spiritual growth.
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