Psalm 119:93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.

Perhaps Psalm 119 is the longest because it is so full of good stuff. Here today we use this psalm to hi-lite an issue of forgetfulness. The older I get the more forgetful I become. It is a dreadful condition of a body in decay. It happens, there is not much of anything we can do about it. What does that say about me?

Are you only the sum of your memories? I don’t think so, I hope not. It is sad to see a person who is in decline that has nothing to cling to but memories. Life should be surrounded by relationships not just memories. Somehow if we continue to focus purely on memories, we miss the finer point of this psalm verse. The quickening spirit!

Psalm 57:7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.

Psalm 119:58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.

Psalm 119:80 Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

The quickening changed who you are and as long as you have not forgotten who you are, then His precepts will not fade away in memory, they are who you are in Christ Jesus. We are more than the sum of our memories, life is more than what has been spent.

Forgetful is not unfaithful.

Proverb 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

Truth is revealed literally, allegorically or metaphorically. I do not care how this shall happen as long as truth is revealed. In the literal sense, you have the word candle which is a picture of the spirit of man. What picture is in your mind? A candle wick and wax, shaped like a stick, tapered, to be set on a stand? I would agree that this is the first and most familiar image one has of a candle. I would remind you that the candle of the time of this writing in proverbs was not of that design. It was a lamp.

This lamp was of a design to hold oil, which was the source of illumination. It was not illumination, only the fuel for the fire. The oil was not and is not a part of the lamp design. You can have a lamp without oil. This is verified in scripture in the telling of with wide virgins.

Matthew 25:3 They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

They were instructed to go and purchase oil for their lamps. So the oil is placed in the vessel and is not a part of the original design but had a place in the function of the lamp. The lamp was designed to contain the oil, but the oil is not the lamp.

Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,

The oil is a representation of the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit. This lamp oil is the Holy Spirit. Spirit is of God, we are but a vessel, but there is one thing missing, ignition. Can a lamp with oil lite itself? No.

Psalm 119:154 Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

The Word is the ignition source. No lamp is lite without it.