“Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.” Psalm 119:105
“A lamp … a light” are metaphors that reveal the use of God’s Commandments to teach us, to show us the good way to go. The Law shows us a way of life; while, Jesus, the Word and the Way (John 14:6), takes us there.
Luther noted that the Word’s light is not for our eyes and our seeing but for our feet and path. But our feet cannot be lit, and our paths cannot see. So, this verse describes the Word’s work of faith. “It guides the feet and the heart, and faith does not require understanding.… Thus faith does not enlighten the understanding, indeed, it blinds it, but rather the heart. Faith leads it where it will be saved, and it does so through the hearing of the Word”.
One of the basic tenets of our church is that “we believe, teach, and confess that the only rule and norm according to which all teachings, together with all teachers, should be evaluated and judged are the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures of the Old and New Testament alone”.
God’s blessings on your day…