Psalms 119:112-113. I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statues always, even unto the end. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Notice that the word "vain" is not in the original, the psalmist wrote, "I hate thoughts," yet the word for thoughts includes the idea of mere thoughts. So, if any teaching in the world is the result of human thought alone, you may not rely upon it for a moment, for the Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity," and they never will be anything better than that. The thoughts even of the most profound and the best instructed of men will not bear the weight and pressure of an immortal soul’s eternal interests. Revelation is the one reliable thing that we can rest upon. What God has spoken is all true, but as for what men have thought, I have been so often disappointed and deceived that I can say, with the psalmist, "I hate mere thoughts: but thy law do I love." In the law of the Lord there are verities, certainties, immutabilities, here may we abide, and rest securely.
Psalms 119:112-113. I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statues always, even unto the end. I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
Notice that the word "vain" is not in the original, the psalmist wrote, "I hate thoughts," yet the word for thoughts includes the idea of mere thoughts. So, if any teaching in the world is the result of human thought alone, you may not rely upon it for a moment, for the Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity," and they never will be anything better than that. The thoughts even of the most profound and the best instructed of men will not bear the weight and pressure of an immortal soul’s eternal interests. Revelation is the one reliable thing that we can rest upon. What God has spoken is all true, but as for what men have thought, I have been so often disappointed and deceived that I can say, with the psalmist, "I hate mere thoughts: but thy law do I love." In the law of the Lord there are verities, certainties, immutabilities, here may we abide, and rest securely.