Open thou mine eyes

“Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” - Psalm 119.18

What a great prayer!  David gives us some very good words here when it comes to the Bible, or “thy law” as he calls it here.  “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”

David was asking the Lord to open his eyes.   When David used the phrase, “thy law” it was because that was the only portion of the Bible he had.  The people who lived during David’s time did not have anything passed the Book of 2 Samuel.  All they had was “the law”.  Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and 1 & 2 Samuel.

Yet he prayed, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”

He did not have any of the New Testament.  He did not have the Books of the Kings or the Chronicles.  No Psalms or book of wisdom, Proverbs.  None of the books of the prophets, major or minor.  Yet he prayed, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”

“...wondrous things...”  Down through the history of God-fearing, Bible believing people, there have been many who had very little of God’s Word.  Sometimes only a page or two – how precious It was to them. God tells us, “Behold the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the word of the LORD:”  “Open thou mine eyes,” !

Run with patience,

Pastor