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A Search For The Top Ten
March 15, 2012

BibleGateway, an online Bible resource, looked at the viewing habits of some of their 8 million monthly visitors. They found that John 3:16 was the most-searched-for verse in 2010.

I don’t think it’s surprising that it would be number one on the list. It tells us that God loved us so much that He sent His Son to rescue us from our sin and give us everlasting life. Number 10 on the list is Jesus’ commission to His followers to spread that good news: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations” (Matt. 28:19). Also in the top 10 are Jeremiah 29:11 and Romans 8:28 about God’s good plans and purposes for His people.

The Scriptures are filled with truths to search out and share. In Psalm 119, the longest chapter in the Bible, the psalmist shared his thoughts about the Word and his desire to search it and be taught by God. He said, “Oh, how I love Your law!” (v.97). Our Bible reading for today shows some of the psalmist’s reasons for loving it: It gives him wisdom and understanding, it restrains his feet from evil, and it is sweet. Therefore, it’s his meditation “all the day.”

Let’s keep taking the time to read the Bible. The more we search the Word, the more we’ll grow in our love for it and its Author (v.97).

Search the Scriptures’ precious store—
As a miner digs for ore;
Search, and you will surely find
Treasures to enrich the mind. —Anon.

The more you read the Bible, the more you’ll love its Author.

Read: Psalm 119:97-104

Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. —Psalm 119:97

Bible in a Year:
1 Samuel 4-7

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Psalm 119:153-160

King James Version (KJV)

“153.Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

154.Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

155.Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

156.Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

157.Many are my persecutors and mine enemies; yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.

158.I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.

159.Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy loving kindness.

160.Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
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