Psalm 119:18 | “Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.”

The psalmist pleads for God to open his eyes. He understands that the problem is not a defect in God’s word, but a limitation in himself. Though the law is clear and perfect, the human heart is dull without divine help. He knows that only God can grant true spiritual sight. Spurgeon writes, “Scripture needs opening, but not one half so much as our eyes do: the veil is not on the book, but on our hearts. What perfect precepts, what precious promises, what priceless privileges are neglected by us because we wander among them like blind men amongst the beauties of nature, and they are to us as a landscape shrouded in darkness!” The “wondrous things” in God’s law are not discovered by intellect alone. They are revealed by the Spirit who inspired them. This must be our prayer as well. Before we open the Scriptures, we should ask the Lord to open our eyes. And when he opens our eyes, we do not see something new in Scripture. We finally see what was there all along.