Think back in time when words from someone you looked up to had an impact in your life.   Negative or positive.   As a five-year-old I was staying the weekend with grandpa and grandma.   As a five-year-old, for some reason I was fascinated with the toilet.   I began placing tissue into the mouth of the porcelain monster and would flush it all down with excitement.   Until I put too much tissue in and it did not flush…it began to overflow!   Afraid that I had broken the toilet I ran and hide under the bed in the next room.   Moments passed by until I heard the scream of my grandma as she entered the bathroom.   Grandpa came in and saw the mess.   Upon their realization, I was nowhere to be found.   The frantic cries of my name filled the house.   I could see from under my bed the feet of my grandparents going back and forth in the hallway.   Then my grandpa stopped in front of my room.   I watched his feet with anticipation as he opened the closet door and then made his way to the

Psalm 119 is very unique.   This past summer I was reading through this chapter and the challenge that screams through the pages is loud and clear…. Let the Word of God speak for Itself.   Matthew Henry ( 17th and early 18th Century minister of the Gospel in Chester, England and Bible Commentator)   explains Psalm 119 like this, "The general scope and design of it is to magnify the law, and make it honourable; to set forth the excellency and usefulness of divine revelation, and to recommend it to us, not only for the entertainment, but for the government, of ourselves, by the psalmist's own example, who speaks by experience of the benefit of it, and of the good impressions made upon him by it, for which he praises God, and earnestly prays, from first to last, for the continuance of God's grace with him, to direct and quicken him in the way of his duty.” Parents…in order to impact our children we must be in the Word and know the Word!   We must set the example of all