How can a young man

     keep his way pure?

By guarding it

   according to Your Word.

...I have stored up

   Your Word in my heart,

that I might not

             sin against You.

...I will meditate

         on Your precepts

and fix my eyes

         on Your ways.

     Psalm 119. 9, 11, 15

(We don't just

        read God's Word,

  but we are being changed

        in radical ways.

Every time we open His Word,

it changes us

    and everyone around us.

And when we don't,

   we are the ones

          missing out

   on what could have been.

God's Word guards us

     and alters

       the course of our lives

       more than we know.)

O LORD,

Thank You for Your Word

that we can know You

     and know You more.

Help us not just to read it,

    but ponder

    and abide in it.

Rise up in us Your Word

   throughout our day

to fix our eyes upon You

   to respond to circumstances,

   not be defeated by them.

Your Word put us back

     on the path of Your glory

     in this situation before us.

It is not in our reading

  but Your doing through it.

We are being changed

     by what we read,

     by what we now see,

     by how we respond,

     by how we love You

                 even more,

                 ever more.