Daily Discipleship - Day 354: Let the Words of My Mouth Be Acceptable
May 3, 2026
Daily Discipleship • Day 354 • Monday, April 19, 2027
Let the Words of My Mouth Be Acceptable
Psalm 19:14
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Carmen Joy Imes — Old Testament scholar and author of Being God's Image, whose work on the Psalms and human speech as image-bearing activity grounds this closing prayer in who God made us to be.
εὐδοκίαν
eudokian · Greek LXX“acceptable / pleasing / well-pleasing”
eudokia (eu + dokeŏ, to seem well, to be pleased with) means delight, approval, good pleasure. David does not merely ask that his words be inoffensive—he asks that they be delightful to God. The bar is not neutral acceptability but active divine pleasure. Words that delight God emerge from a heart that mediates on Him.
David ends Psalm 19—a meditation on creation's declaration and Scripture's perfection—with a prayer about his own words. Having contemplated how the heavens declare God's glory and how God's law is perfect, he turns inward: 'And my words—let them also be acceptable to You.' It is the prayer of someone humbled by divine speech standards.
Imes shows that human speech is one of the primary ways we bear or distort God's image. God speaks and creates; we speak and build up or tear down. The prayer of Psalm 19:14 is a daily necessary prayer—not just for preachers but for everyone whose words shape the people and places around them. Pray it before you speak today.
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