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Read: Psalm 119:9-16

“How can a young person stay on the path of purity?” (v. 9) Perhaps the psalmist (songwriter/singer?) who wrote Psalm 119, an acrostic psalm, was a young person. But this is obviously not a question that only the youth should ask. Sin is no respecter of age!

To the question the psalmist anwers,  “By living according to your word.” Then he goes on to show how he does it:  “I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.”  The Hebrew word (צָפַ֣נְתִּי, “hidden”) may also be translated “treasured.” Now that’s a revelation! What you love and cherish, you treasure and keep.

When the word of the Lord is treasured, sin is abhorred.