Psalms 119:27

Psalms 119:27. Make me to understand the way of thy precepts:

"Let me know, O Lord, what the way of thy precept is; get me into that way; and then, oh help me to keep in it all my life!"

Psalms 119:27. So shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

A man never talks rightly of God’s works till he knows God’s ways, and it is idle to talk of them if there is no doing at the back of the talking; so the psalmist prays, "Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works." To preach, and not practice, is very bad preaching; but first to understand the way of the Lord, then to run in it, and then to speak of it, this is well.