The Nugget:
Psalm 119:102 I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.
My Comment:
There are many different names in Psalm 119 for the Bible, God’s written Word. Psalm 119:102 uses the title “thy judgments” for the Bible. The Psalmist states he has not departed from God’s judgments, God’s Word. The basis for the Psalmist’s faithful adherence to the Bible is the fact that God has taught him. The Psalm writer lets us know that as he made the Bible his personal subject of careful study, God through the Bible has given him understanding and has taught him what it means. God will do that for each of us too, if we will let Him. We let Him teach us when we take time to read, reread, and study His written word in the Bible. The Bible is a self-teaching, self-correcting Book. You will not go astray into false doctrine or mistaken theologies or interpretations of Scripture if you stick to carefully reading the Bible itself. I have discovered that if I am mistaken about what a passage in the Bible means, I will soon discover my error, because a mistaken understanding of one part of the Bible will create a conflict or contradiction of the meaning or teaching found in another part of the Bible. I am most certain that the few friends and acquaintances of mine who have fallen into false cults have done so because they failed to let God instruct them directly from His Word. You will be much further ahead if you let God teach you directly from His written Word in the Bible first, before you venture into unknown and unverified spiritual territory! When it comes to Bible study, there is simply no match by way of effectiveness to the Bible study method known as cross reference Bible study to ground your life in the truths of the Word of God.
For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:
(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 631.
(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 676 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Psalm 119:102.
(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them further given below:
Psalm 119:102. not departed. Ps *18:21. *86:11. Dt *17:20. Jsh 23:6. 2 S 22:23. 1 K *15:5. Pr *5:7. Je 17:5. %18:14, 15. *32:40. Da 9:5. Ml 2:8. from thy judgments. ver. +7. for thou hast taught. Ps 27:11. +*32:8. 71:17. 86:11. 1 K 8:36. Pr +*4:11. Is 28:26. 30:20. *54:13. Je 31:33. Jn *6:45. 7:17. Ep *4:20-24. 1 Th **2:13. 1 J *2:20, 27.