Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Psalms 119:105, and Living Bread opens it right there.
The passage in its setting
Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Psalms 119. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.
103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
106 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 7 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- Psalms 43:3
O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
- Psalms 18:28
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.
- 2 Peter 1:19
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
- Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
- Psalms 19:8
The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
- Ephesians 5:13
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
More to meet God in Psalms
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.
