Your Word Is A Light To My Path

"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." (1)

The Psalmist testified, "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." Solomon added, "But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble." (2)

As the Word of God is meditated on and practiced, those who search for truth will be ennobled. Those who search the scriptures for understanding will be kept clean from all that is corrupt and deceptive. "Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, and teach out of Your law, that You may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. For the Lord will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance. But judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it." (3)

Jesus said, "You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me." (4) The scriptures point to Jesus as the One sent from heaven who speaks the words of God. "He who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. And what He has seen and heard, that He testifies... For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God. (5)

God, through Jesus Christ, has made plain through the scriptures the path of life. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (6) Jesus is also the One who gives light to every person who is born into the world. (7) Our Creator, through the scriptures, and by His Holy Spirit, gives us the light that lights our paths. By reading the scriptures, He gives us wise instruction, and with the aid of the Holy Spirit, He helps us to understand what has been written. Christ, the King of glory, by His example has shown us the way and has lighted the path.

1. Psalm 119:105.
2. Proverbs 4:18, 19.
3. Psalm 94:12-15.
4. John 5:39.
5. John 3:31, 32, 34.
6. John 14:6.
7. See John 1:9.