Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.… heavenward travellers: — I. It directs the intending traveller to the STARTING-POINT — to the point whence he must set out on his heavenward journey. It takes him to the Cross, it bids him look to Jesus, and then to set out with holy resolution for the celestial city. II. It warns the traveller — having now commenced his journey — of the PERILS THAT WILL BESET HIS PATH. III. It shows the traveller how he may safely ADVANCE ALONG HIS JOURNEY STEP BY STEP. It is not only "a light to the path," showing which is the right way, but a "lamp to the feet," showing whether the traveller is keeping in that path. This step-by-step help it furnishes by laying down general principles to be faithfully and conscientiously applied by the Christian (Romans 12:1). By plying him with motives, the force of which, if he is a Christian, he must feel (1 Corinthians 6:20), in all the details of his life, and by giving specific precepts, as notably is done in the closing portions of some of the epistles (Ephesians 4., etc.). IV. It assures the traveller that the HOPED-FOR TERMINATION WILL BE REACHED. It is important there should be light on the traveller's starting-point; of equal importance that there should be light on the goal at which he hopes to arrive. If this be shrouded in darkness he will lack the stimulus of expectation to hold on his way. He will be ready to halt by reason of the discouragements and difficulties he meets with. (J. F. Poulter, B. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.WEB: Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path. |
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