Psalm 119: 8-9 “I will keep thy statutes, O forsake be not utterly. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to his word.” Commentary: All of us has probably been forsaken by someone! It means to be abandoned, put aside or left behind. You have seen the dog along the highway looking at each car thinking his owner is coming back for him! Eventually he gets hit by a vehicle! We have all been forsaken by someone! Whether a parent, spouse, friend, pastor, Rabbi, Priest, politician or any combination of mortal men! Remember Jesus words on the Cross! Why have you forsaken me? God did not abandon his Son but Jesus had to suffer for our sin on the Cross alone because we all had abandoned God! God has not abandoned you but Satan with his lies will try to convince you he has! Jesus is only one breath away from you calling on his name! He will never leave you or forsake you! How shall a young man cleanse his way? The same way an old man has to cleanse his way! God’s word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path! To follow God’s pathway he will light your way with his word! The other pathway is darkness! Stumbling in the dark! Word used here means God’s prophetic revelation to man! It is God’s spoken word recorded in your Bible! The Ten Commandments are God’s declaration to man as to how to live! To keep his word releases his promises to you! To reject his word is to release his judgment on us! Blessings or curses depending on what you do with his word! To be rejected by men will come but to be rejected by God only a fool would promote! Jesus was rejected and despised of men by the very people that he went to the Cross for! You and me! The love of God can never be better displayed than God dying on a Cross for his enemies! For you and me! Jesus said to love your enemies! This is not humanely possible but only to those that have discovered personally the love of God! His love to us is expressed through his word! Read it and discover it for yourself! James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com