Psalm 119 ~ ALEPH

A friend of mine has challenged me to memorize Psalm 119 with her over the summer. I had done this a few years ago, but from lack of review and accountability had forgotten most of it. But between now and October, with God's help I will re-memorize, and meditate on all of Psalm 119. 
This does seem like a daunting task. There are 176 verses after all.  But we'll break it down to one 8 verse section per week.  And the way the chapter is set up, this is an easy way to do it.
Psalm 119 was written as an acrostic poem, that was separated into 22 stanzas, each named from a letter in the Hebrew alphabet, with each of the 8 verses beginning with that letter. It is filled with testimonies of the faithfulness and truth of God's Law and a desire to always obey it. For the Psalmist this meant the Torah, for Christians today it applies to the whole of God's Word.
I challenge you, dear friends to read and memorize God's Word, so that you can say with the Psalmist, "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."   

Week one:

ALEPH

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.

They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. 

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. 

O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! 

Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.  

I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy 

righteous judgments. 

I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. 

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