Daily Bible Nugget #24, Psalm 119:97

The Nugget:

Psalm 119:97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

My Comment:

“MEM” is the name of the letter in the Hebrew alphabet with which this acrostic or alphabetical Psalm section starts each of its sentences (for these next eight verses). This entire segment is worth careful study. In my estimation, it is one of the high points in the Bible where the Bible speaks of itself. The Psalmist expresses his great love of God’s Word. He makes it his meditation all the day. Of course for him, or for us, to do that, we must have at least read it enough that we can, in fact, remember significant parts of it, so we can meditate or think about what God says in His Word throughout our day. Memorizing Bible verses is one effective way to accomplish this. Reading a portion of the Bible first thing in the morning or last thing at night is another way to prepare our minds and hearts to be thinking about the content of God’s Word. Even thinking about these “Bible Nuggets” day by day as I have posted them can enable you to have a portion of God’s Word in your mind to equip you to think about, or meditate on God’s Word all the day.

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 675 & 676 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Psalm 119:97.

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them further given below:

Psalm 119:97. O how. T#1080. ver. 24, *48, *113, 127, *159, 163, 165, *167. Ps *1:2. %52:3, 4. 112:1. **138:2. Dt *6:6-9. *17:18, 19. Jsh **1:8. 1 K %22:8. 2 Ch 34:18. Ne 8:12. Pr 2:10. 18:1. I love thy law. This is the attitude true Bible believing Christians have toward the written Word of God found in the Bible. But some religious groups, especially the Roman Catholic Church, argue that “Scripture never says that Scripture is the sole infallible authority for God’s Word” in an argument to support the Roman Catholic view that “Scripture Alone Disproves ‘Scripture Alone.'” Almost every false cult holds a similar view. No one who studies the Bible itself and receives it for what it says about itself would ever come to hold this view about the Bible from a study of Scripture itself. This Roman Catholic argument is INVALID in that form because what is really at question is not if or whether Scripture says in exactly those words that it is the sole infallible authority for God’s Word, but is this a proper, necessary, and valid inference to be drawn by the statements and examples that are given in the Bible. Of course the claim that “Scripture alone disproves ‘Scripture alone'” argued by Roman Catholics is not a valid inference drawn directly from Scripture, but the very opposite. ver. 9, +47, 159, 163, 165. Ps 19:7. 112:1. Pr 12:1. Dt 11:8. Ro 7:22. 2 C *3:7, 8. 1 T 1:8. 2 T +**3:16, 17. meditation. ver. 15, 24, 99. Ps +*1:2. 104:34. Ge 24:63. Jb 15:4. Pr 2:10. 15:14. 18:15. Is 29:24. Je +*15:16. Ezk 3:3. Lk 11:36. Jn +**5:39. Ro 12:2. 1 T **4:13, 15. all the day. Ps 25:5. Dt **6:7. **17:19. Jsh +*1:8. Pr 6:22. Ac +**17:11.