I open my mouth, panting expectantly, longing for your commands. (Psalm.119.131 NLT)
We are and are called the children of the light. The difference between us and the world is that we love the light –after all we are the light while the the world hates the light and has loved darkness. [John 3.19]. In verse 130 of Psalm 119, he talks about what brings light: the unfolding of the word of God.
Since we love the light, then there must be a desire for what brings the light making it brighter and brighter. This is what is expressed in our theme scripture: _I open my mouth, panting expectantly, longing for your commands._
It might not be just opening a physical mouth but setting your heart mind and soul to receive from the hand of God. The word of God hoovers allover looking for a ready heart and a set mind prepared to receive what God is saying.
If there is no appetite for spiritual things, no desire for God’s Word, is it not a sure mark that there is no spiritual life in a person?
Recently we spoke about the bread of life and how necessary it is for our spiritual being. Think about how soil longs for the rain and how instantly and beautifully it brings forth flora. Think about how happily and calmly an infant receives milk from its mother's breast.
The entrance of God's word sets so many things to life in our spirit.
Every child of God should have the desire to always receive from God. How do you know something is slowly trailing you away from the truth? When you start to lose the appetite for God's instruction.
This longing and love for the presence of God is what keeps someone meditating for hours. It keeps you praying without ceasing. Your start to desire being in God's presence endlessly.
Was is by physical strength that Enoch walked with God until he was not? Was is by personal will that Moses stayed up the mountain with God for forty days and forty nights? Oh somebody would say Jesus was God that's why He fasted for forty days and forty nights, but Enoch and Moses were not God.
The zeal of a man God-ward can cause Him to be quickened in the understanding of God's word than a man without zeal.
Paul felt like he had already delayed in what God had purposed him for and it gave him a zeal. And the Psalmists became a stranger to his brethren. Nobody could understand or predict him anymore.
Ps.69.8-9 I have become a stranger to my brethren, and an alien to my mother 's children. For zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches and insults of those who reproach and insult You have fallen upon me. (AMP)
Nothing in this world will really make sense when you set your heart's desire on God. This is how much the longing for God can change somebody.
Praise God!
Related text: ISAIAH 26.8-9
Hallelujah!
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