Psalm 119:35 - 40

Overview:
I am happiest when I can walk no other way but in Your path. Make me love Your Word more than money. I want to have eyes only for Your Word. Wake me up to Your Word, so that I have a proper reverence and fear of You. Make me give up my shameful ways because I know your Rules are good. I long for your Word! Make me alive again with Your goodness.
Application:
Over and over again the writer begs for God to make His Word come alive, and have meaning to him. Verse 35, gives me a picture of a path that is walled in, so that the walker has no choice but to stay on the path. I need that very thing!! We/I think we want choices, but when we have choices, we frequently choose selfishly or unwisely. David too, knows this about himself - therefore he is asking God to hem him in, so that he has no choice but to move in God's path. I can relate! What is the thing I treasure most? Whatever it is, make me love Your Word more than my "treasure." Wake me up, revive and renew me - give me the excitement that new believers have as they discover what is in Your Word. Knowing I will fail if I try in my own power, "make me abandon my shameful ways." (v.39) I am asking this of You because I know your Word/Rules are good for me!
"Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. ...what He says we will do, where He sends we will go. Never fear, only trust and obey."