The Children’s Six Minutes: A Unique Psalm
A UNIQUE PSALM
I want to tell you about a unique Psalm. Which Psalm is it? It is the 119th.
The 119th Psalm is unique because of its length. It is the longest of the Psalms. It has one hundred and seventy-six verses.
It is unique because of its arrangement. It is divided into twenty-two equal parts. Each part contains eight verses.
Again, the 119th Psalm is an acrostic, or an alphabetical Psalm. It is built around the Hebrew alphabet. Each of the twenty-two portions begins with one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
The Psalm is unique because of its content. It is given over entirely to a consideration of the law and commandments of God. Indeed, if you will read the Psalm, you will find that every verse says something about the precepts, or the statutes, or the commandments, or the word of God.
The 119th Psalm contains some of the verses with which we are most familiar. “Wherewithal [61]shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.” “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
The Psalm reaches its highest point, and finds its fullest expression in the 94th verse, three words, “I am thine.”
Young people, I want you to read this 119th Psalm, and when you come to the 94th verse I want you to stop and say over very earnestly, very prayerfully, “I am thine.” And may you be His for all time is my prayer.
MEMORY VERSE, Psalm 119: 94
“I am thine, save me; for I have sought thy precepts.”
MEMORY HYMN
“Lord, I am thine, entirely thine.”
1 Lord, I am Thine, entirely Thine,
Purchased and saved by blood divine;
With full consent Thine I would be,
And own Thy sovereign right in me.
2 Grant one poor sinner more a place
Among the children of Thy grace;
A wretched sinner, lost to God,
But ransomed by Immanuel’s blood.
3 Thine would I live, Thine would I die,
Be Thine through all eternity:
The vow is past beyond repeal,
And now I set the solemn seal.
4 Here, at that cross where flows the blood
That bought my guilty soul for God,
Thee my new Master now I call,
And consecrate to Thee my all.
Amen.
Source: The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal: official hymnal of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church #469
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