Today, Lord, we’re asking You for pure words and a pure heart. Guide us in every decision, interaction, and relationship. Don’t allow past hurts or wounds to dictate our current responses. Sanctify our circle. Send real, rich, authentic, and sanctified relationships. We give you permission to cleanse our circle, even when it hurts! Today we’re asking for Your guidance, protection, wisdom, and purity in our lives in Jesus’ Name. Amen
“Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer.”
Psalm 19:14 KJV
In Psalm 19, David talks about the word of God and how to live by it. He asks God to help him avoid willful sin.
Psalm 19 could be interpreted as saying that the heavens may tell of God’s glory, but that believers can only make sense of creation after God gives the Torah. This allows believers to recognize sin, ask for forgiveness, and trust in God’s grace.
David wanted his words and the thoughts of his heart to be acceptable to the Lord. When a worshiper brought an animal to the sanctuary to be sacrificed to the Lord, a priest would examine it to see if it was free of blemishes. If a blemish was found, neither the animal nor the worshiper was accepted by the Lord (see Leviticus 1:3–10; 22:17–25).
Taking that concept of being “blemish-free” to heart, our words should comfort or edify those who hear them. Colossians 4:6 exhorts us to use speech that is “gracious, seasoned with salt, so that [we] may know how [we] ought to answer each person.” Hebrews 10:25 summons us to encourage one another. Ephesians 4:15 directs us to speak the truth in Love, and Ephesians 5:19 tells us to “[address] one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.”
Jesus taught that the heart is the source of our words. He declared, “For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). It is important, therefore, to fill the heart with Scripture (Psalm 119:11).
In this Psalm, David addresses the Lord as his rock and his redeemer. He recognized that the Lord was the provider of his security and his salvation. By shedding His blood on the cross, Jesus is our Redeemer (1 Peter 1:18–19), and as our living Lord He keeps us safe (1 Peter 1:3–5).