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Wonderful

  Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law. I love the honesty and self awareness of David in this verse. By default, we're all spiritually blind, clueless as to the things of God. Yet with God's miraculous enabling we can have our eyes opened to spiritual realities. Even having had our spiritual eyes opened by God, we can still close them due to laziness, weariness, or stubbornness. David didn't want to become or to remain spiritually sluggish, so he prayed to God to open his eyes to see the wonder of His word. Most people wouldn't use the adjective 'wonderful' to describe God's word. To the ignorant, casual observer, the description they might give the Law is 'boring'. If love- of God and one another- doesn't seem wonderful to us, we've got our priorities all wrong. Augustine of Hippo once described himself as having his back to the Light before he came to faith. He saw things illuminated by the Light, but