With my whole heart - I will not trifle with my God, I will not divide my affections with the world; God shall have all.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law - Give me right views of it, of its nature and obligation. It is not a prayer that God would give him the faculty of understanding or intelligence; but that he would enable him to take just views of the law. The word is the same as in Psalm 119:27, rendered there, “Make me to understand.”
Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart - See Psalm 119:2. I will keep it with undivided affections; I will make it the sole guide of my life.
34. See EGW on Psalm 63:5, 6. 3BC 1152.1
17, 18, 33-40. An Example of Prayer—[Psalm 119:17, 18, 33-40 quoted.] Such prayers as this the Lord's servants should be continually offering to Him. This prayer reveals a consecration to God of heart and mind; it is the consecration that God is asking us to make (The Review and Herald, September 17, 1908). 3BC 1152.2
Read in context »Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart. Psalm 119:34. Mar 231.1
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