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Psalm 119:33-40

We all struggle to obey God’s word.  We are in good company, though, because most of the people who are lifted up as examples in the Bible struggled to obey God’s word too.  We have a tendency to be more concerned with learning the Bible than with applying it to our lives, which makes us knowledgeable but proud, contentious, and condescending instead of humble, loving and merciful.  We also don’t make reading the Bible a priority so we are ignorant of what it says, which leads us to wander off of God’s good path and make a wreck of our lives.  Once we do learn God’s word our stubborn hearts get in the way and we reject someone else telling us to surrender to them and obey because we think we know better.  In the end the only one who can obey God’s word perfectly is Jesus Christ, and we need His death to cover over our failures to obey God’s word, and we need His perfect obedience to be credited to us through faith in Him.