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Psalm chapter 119, verse 176,

I've gone astray like a lost sheep seek your servant for I do not forget your commandments.

Isn't that an interesting way for this longest chapter in the Bible?

A chapter that's just filled with descriptions of God's Word and longing for God's Word and trust

in God's Word. It ends with a verse saying I have gone astray like a lost sheep.

I read that and I can't help but to think about the tendency in my life and in every one of our

lives to go astray from the Word of God. This great valuable treasure, life giving Word from God.

In our sinfulness we are prone to go astray from it. All of us are to realize that today

we will be tempted to go astray from God's Word. That we will be tempted to think our ways

are better than his ways than his Word. And so the Psalmist says I've gone astray like a lost sheep

seek your servant. Oh praise God that he seeks after us when we have gone astray and he seeks

after us. Even before we go astray that he is continually seeking after us. Seek your servant,

the Psalmist phrase for I do not forget your commandments. Oh that's so important isn't it?

That you and I when we are going astray that by God's seeking grace we remember his commandments

and we turn back toward him. How important is it? This is what Psalm 119 started by saying I've hidden

your Word in my heart that I might not sin against you. When you and I are tempted and especially

when we go astray we need God's Word to be recalled in that moment. In that moment of temptation

and that moment of falling to temptation we need God's Word to come to us quickly that we might

not forget it that we might remember it and turn back to God as our loving shepherd when we

as sheep go astray. Oh God we confess our tendency to not trust your Word and God even as I

say that in light of all the beauty and glory and wonder and majesty and truth and treasure that

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