Psalm 119:13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth. As I read this verse, I wonder have I declared all of God’s rulings with my mouth? I rather doubt it. But it is my personal responsibility to do so. It must come from my own lips.
When I meet the Lord face to face one day, am I going to hear Well done good and faithful servant. If I’m truly a faithful servant then I will make His Word known as much as possible. Have I asked Him for opportunities and made know the Good News of Jesus Christ to everyone possible? This is a humbling thought for me. I need His boldness and His compassion for all.
What should I declare.
First of all to declare something means to clearly, forcefully, and authoritatively announce something. I have the best announcement ever! Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners like myself.
All of my declarations must be truths from the Word of God. This is God Himself speaking. Shout it out to all men everywhere!
In verse 12, the Psalmist is asking God to show him His ways and teach him His statutes. As he is taught then in turn he can share God’s Word with others.
Spurgeon in The Treasury of David says:
“The taught one of Psalms 119:12 is here a teacher himself. What we learn in secret we are to proclaim upon the housetops. So had the Psalmist done. As much as he had known he had spoken. God has revealed many of his judgments by his mouth, that is to say, by a plain and open revelation; these it is our duty to repeat, becoming, as it were, so many exact echoes of his one infallible voice. There are judgments of God which are a great deep, which he does not reveal, and with these it will be wise for us not to intermeddle. What the Lord has veiled it would be presumption for us to uncover; but, on the other hand, what the Lord has revealed it would be shameful for us to conceal.
It is a great comfort to a Christian in time of trouble when in looking back upon his past life he can claim to have done his duty by the word of God.
