If we silly Christians would just absorb God's holy and pure word instead of some "great" man of God's ideas or even worse the worlds ideas of what God is saying we would be so much better off.    The first verse of today's teaching speaks of how the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul.  The Hebrew word for converting is eL shub shoob.  This word means to turn back, or more correctly return to the beginning.  So what David is saying is that the purpose of the Law of God is to help us return to the beginning.  What beginning?  To a time of purity and holiness, to a time of being clean before the Lord.   Interesting, God did not institute the Law to make us feel guilty, to burden us with ordinances we could never do, but to show us the error of our ways.  You want a great way to witness to a sinner?  Just use the 10 commandments.  Think about it, it is easy.  Let's start on common ground.  With the sixth commandment you can ask someone if they have ever killed someone.  Of course they will answer NO! but the Bible tells us that if we have ever hated someone in our hearts we have committed murder in our hearts.  Bingo! You just showed the sinner in God's eyes he is a murderer.  Let's go on, the seventh commandment says you shall not commit adultery.   So again you ask the sinner ( especially a man) if he has ever been an adulterer?  Again your answer will most likely be a resounding NO!  But you gently remind him Jesus said that any man who lusts after a woman in his mind has committed adultery with her.   If you're a man witnessing and you are truthful you know that at some point in your life you looked at a woman with more than pure intentions.  So, now we have convinced the sinner in God's eyes he is an adulterer.  Now we go on to the eighth commandment you shall not steal.  Everyone has stolen something.  Whether it is an idea, or  whether  the store gave you a few bits of extra change back and you did not stop them.  Whether it was a as a kid on a dare or some friends item you just had to have.  No matter how large or small if we are totally honest we all have stolen something.  So now God's law has brought this sinner back to the beginning.  They now realize that they are lying, thieving, adulterers at heart and have only gone through three commandments.  Now they can be brought back to the point that God wants and back to that beginning which is that saving grace of Jesus. 
        "The testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple"  The testimony or witness of the Lord will make wise the simple.   To put it in the simple Hebrew terms this says that the witness of the Lord is faithful to teach wisdom to the silly or foolish.   If we take the Lord at His word and we study the word of God in the Spirit and truth it will give us all the wisdom we will ever need for our lives.  The other day I was reading a worldly teaching on investing.  The author quoted Solomon and called him the wisest man to ever live.  This author used Solomon as an example of how to invest your money.  He was not speaking of how to give to God but how a worldly person should save for the future.  Interesting Huh?  I have been in the ministry for almost 30 years and 99% of the wisdom I have came from the Word of God.  It did not come from the 22 years of schooling man put me through but the pure and simple word of God.

        The statutes of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart.  The Hebrew for statutes means a precept.  If you look up precept it is defined as a doctrine that is taught or a rule of personal conduct.  So, the doctrine or the life rules we Christians live by bring rejoicing to the heart. But, did you notice the word right? The statutes of the LORD are "right"!  This is a very interesting Hebrew word here.  At first glance we only get that it means straight.  We must remember though that the Hebrew language had many different meanings and variations that are hard to put into one English word.  If we look deeper at the root it means to be straight or even and to make prosperous.  Do you get it?  The doctrines of the Lord make us straight, even and prosperous in the heart.  Now, let's look at the Hebrew for rejoicing.  It means to make bright or brighten up.  So this short verse is telling us that the "Doctrines we believe and live by are going to keep us on the straight and even course and make our heart brighten up and be prosperous.  Wow! See what a little study can show you?

        The commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.  This again says that the precepts or our beliefs are beloved and clarify.  It tells us that they make our eyes luminous.  I cannot speak for you, but I honestly cannot count how many times I will be reading the scriptures and I will come across one I have highlighted in the past.  However, it will be like I have never seen it before.  My eyes will be luminous toward that scripture and its meaning will become clear as the noon day sun on a clear summer day.  That scripture will go straight to my heart and many times will provide insight and comfort for a certain situation I am going through.  It is as if God has reached out and said to me personally here is what you need to know. 

        The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring forever.  I love this, it is so true.  The fear or reverence of the Lord is clean.  The Hebrew here for clean is pure in the moral sense or if we go to the root is uncontaminated.  Do you get the idea in the first part of the verse?   You cannot revere the Lord from a contaminated or evil point of view.  When you truly fear or revere the Lord it is from a real uncontaminated realization of who God is in the grand scheme of things.  You cannot truly revere or fear the Lord for selfish reasons.  You can only truly revere the Lord when you come to the pure, uncontaminated realization of who God is and what you are!  The great thing is that it says "enduring for ever".   Think about it, if you do not endure for ever how will your reverence of the Lord?  Again a promise.  If we fear and revere the Lord as we should, it and we will endure for ever.          

        The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether. This one is simple and you can either accept it or not.  David is telling us that all the judgments, verdicts, sentences, justice, and punishments of the Lord are true, or trustworthy and righteous or right and fair, altogether or totally.  David is saying whether we like it or not all the judgments of God are totally deserved and just.  As a Christian you either believe this or not.  It really does not matter if you understand WHY?    God does not have to explain Himself to you or I.  Our Lord is the creator of the Universe and whether I understand all He does in not important.   What is important is that I follow His word  to the death.