Psalm 119:130 | “The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.”

The psalmist now turns from wonder to illumination. He declares that the opening of God’s word gives light. This light is not reserved for the learned or the elite. It gives understanding even to the simple. Calvin writes, “It ought to have a most powerful influence in exciting in us an earnest desire to become acquainted with the law of God, when we are told that even those who, in the estimation of the world, are fools, and contemptible simpletons, provided they apply their minds to this subject, acquire from it wisdom sufficient to lead them to eternal salvation. Although it is not given to all men to attain to the highest degree in this wisdom, yet it is common to all the godly to profit so far as to know the certain and unerring rule by which to regulate their life.” For the psalmist, hearing, learning, and submitting to the word of God has been life changing. And so it is for all who place themselves under its authority. Spurgeon adds, “The word finds no entrance into some minds because they are blocked up with self conceit, or prejudice, or indifference; but where due attention is given, divine illumination must surely follow upon knowledge of the mind of God. Oh, that thy words, like the beams of the sun, may enter through the window of my understanding, and dispel the darkness of my mind.” To that we say, “Amen.”