Deal with your servant according to your mercy and teach me your statutes
I am your servant; Give me understanding, That I may know your testimonies
It is time to for you to act, O Lord, For they have regarded your law as void.
Therefore, I love your commandments More than gold, yes, than fine gold.
Therefore all Your precepts concerning all things I consider to be right: I hate every false way.
Psalm 119:121-128 AYIN ע
The Hebrew letter portrayed in this passage of the Psalms is the 16th letter Ayin,(Ayen). It is more regarded as a vowel due to the fact that the letter itself does not typically have a sound, but it adds to other letters to create new words. The creation of this letter is believed to be tied to what it means, which is basically the window to the soul, or in layman's terms, the eye,(eyes): One being good and one being bad. This unwraps what Jesus was taliking about in the Gospel of Mattheww when He says this to the people, "The eye is the lamp of the whole body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. Matthew 6:22-23. Although the verbage here might be a little hard to grasp at times, what Jesus is saying is that the things we choose to focus on will be the things that permeate our entire soul. Say you know someone who looks at the world and only sees despair and disappointment. The reason they see the world this way is because they have chosen to focus solely on these things. Now, take someone who goes through life with a smile in all circumstances and joy in their heart. If you put these 2 people in the same environment and told them to tell you what they see, you would receive 2 very different answers. Person one would see all the things wrong with the place you have put them in, but Person 2 would see the blessings and the beauty that is all around them. So where does the difference come in? Why do 2 people looking at the exact same view come to 2 very different responses? Because throughout their life, they have to decided what they want to focus on, therefore allowing those things to take up their whole focus. Person 1 has decided that the world is only out to disappointment and fill them with heartache, so that is what they have chosen to set theirs eyes on. Person 2 realizes that life is filled with big and small joys, and God has proven to reveal Himself to his children through these little beauties.
The author of this psalm is trying make it very clear that what we choose to set are eyes, our AYIN, upon will completely change our outlook on life. Look back at the beginning of this section. When the psalmist has his gaxe on the world, he sees only his oppressors and the trouble they bring. It is only when he shifts his perception back to the Father, the ones coming against him mean nothing to him, because he knows the one he has set his eyes on will carry him though and watch over him as long as he trusts in what he sees, not just what is around him.
In the boat, as the waters were tossing every which way around him, Peter was able to walk on the water if he kept his eyes on Jesus. It was only when he looked away that he began to sink. Let us always keep our eyes on the Father and whatever trials and tribulations come our way, we will be able to walk above them, because we know what has our focus.
I want to go through this life walking with the Father, not sinking from the troubles of this world.
"Turn your eyes, upon Jesus. Look full in His wonderful face. And the things of Earth, will grow strangely dim. In the Light, of His Glory and Grace" - Lauren Daigle Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus
Adam Semple- A Young Man on a Journey through the Psalms.
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