“Wondrous Things ”

Psalm 119:18  Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from Your law.

The Law of God found in the Pentateuch is a relatively small portion of the entire Word of God, yet it was something that the Psalmist wants to perceive in its full orbed splendor.Man by himself cannot see wondrous things, and the reason is that without Christ man is spiritually blind (Revelation 3:17; Job 11:12).  Naturally blind, as well as lacking that divine light which can alone reveal and illuminate the sacred mysteries.

The Psalmist not only desires to see the Law of God, but to see wondrous things.  He does not wish for another law, but rather that with the light that he has been given he might see light.  The contemplation of that which supernatural light has been thrown is the clear and experimental knowledge of the Word of God that will be obtained.

In reality, the wondrous things are the plain truths of the Word of God. The perfection of God’s Law is a thing of wondrous beauty.  No poet has ever had so exquisite a sense of the beauties of nature. The Word is without parallel.

The Word is also wondrously surprising.  No other book was written over a span of 1600 years, several cultures, 40 authors, three languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek)  and yet does not contradict itself.  That itself argues best for divine authorship.

Lastly, the Word is wondrously perfect in its wisdom (Deuteronomy 4:6), its purity (Deut. 6:49), its power (Romans 1:16), and its unity—as noted in the previous paragraph (Psalm 119:89).

Don't let a day go by that you refrain from looking into the Word of God!  Wondrous things await you!