Thoughts on Psalm 119:162:

“I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.”

Great spoil. Hidden treasure. Something worth searching for, digging toward, and uncovering.

Learning to treasure God’s Word requires a fight. Busy schedules crowd it out, distracted minds wander, stubborn hearts resist, and a loud world presses its own standards into us. We can know the Bible is precious and still find ourselves too tired or pre-occupied to open it.

Perhaps that is why Scripture feels less like a shallow stream and more like a deep mine. The treasure is real, but we have to dig.

We must dig past the noise, past our assumptions, and past our self-sufficiency. We have to slow down long enough to listen. When we do, we uncover something transformative: a word that meets us right where we are, a truth that exposes what needs changing, a promise that steadies us, and a glimpse of God’s character that results in worship.

The treasure wasn’t created the moment we found it…it was there all along. The digging simply revealed what was hidden beneath the surface.

To truly treasure God’s Word is not merely to read it, but to linger long enough for it to read us…letting it sink below the surface until it becomes a part of who we are.

When the psalmist proclaims, “I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold,” he describes a love that doesn’t happen by accident. It is cultivated…There is treasure buried deep in the Word. Keep digging.

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