The Psalm is unique because of its content.  It is given over entirely to a consideration of the law and commandments of God.  Indeed, if you will read the Psalm, you will find that every verse says something about the precepts, or the statutes, or the commandments, or the word of God.

The 119th Psalm contains some of the verses with which we are most familiar.  “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?  By taking heed thereto according to thy word.”  “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”  “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

The Psalm reaches its highest point, and finds its fullest expression in the 94th verse, three words, “I am thine.”

Young people, I want you to read this 119th Psalm, and when you come to the 94th verse I want you to stop and say over very earnestly, very prayerfully, “I am thine.”  And may you be His for all time is my prayer.

MEMORY VERSE, Psalm 119:  94

“I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.”

MEMORY HYMN [342]

    "Lord, I am thine, entirely thine."

THE FATHER’S CARE

I have here a nut.  It is a pecan.  It grows in our southern states.  It is a well formed nut with a hard shell.  This nut I have is cracked.  I open it and I notice just inside a thin, brown coating that covers the meat.  I touch this coating to my lips.  It is bitter and causes me to pucker my lips.  This is the Creator’s blessed provision for the protection of the nut in its growing stage.  The bitter coating keeps insects and pests away.

On my way to church this morning I looked up and saw a long piece of yarn flying across the street at a rapid rate.  I wondered what could cause that.  Then at the front end of the yarn I saw a bird.  The bird flew to the gable of a big house.  There, in a protected corner, she was making her nest.  The yarn was to be woven into her new spring house.  So God gives instinct to birds and all his creatures as a mark of his loving care.

The most delicate, sensitive portion of your body is the eye.  When I consider how tender and open to harm the eye is I wonder that so many of us go through life with our eyes unhurt.  But God has provided a sleepless protection for our eyes.  There is a guard, always on duty.  Whenever danger comes near, that guard, our eyelid, closes and effectively wards off impending trouble.

We started with the lowest form of life, an inanimate nut.  Now we come to the highest, the soul of man.  For in each one of you there is something eternal, something akin to God himself.  The name we give that eternal spirit is the soul.  For the protection of our soul God gives us faith, a sense of right and wrong, conscience, the still small voice.  He surrounds us with Christian homes, the Church, helpful fellowship, the means of grace.  All these things are a protection for the soul.