I have been reading recently in Psalm 119 and these verses came to mind, given what we have been thinking about on Sunday mornings in Romans 1. If disordered lives flow (as they do) from disordered loves, then our hearts and what we love are the key to our lives being restored to their originally intended likeness, which is Christlikeness. Our hearts, of course, by nature following the fall in Genesis 3, love everything but God and what is pleasing to Him. They are self-loving rather than God-loving and neighbour-loving but recognising and receiving Jesus as our Saviour and Lord, we are given a new heart as per the promise in Ezekiel 36:26-27 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.  And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.  In that renewed heart, a battle then begins in the believer and continues till our dying day between the loves of God, of neighbour and the disordered loves of the dregs of our old sinful nature which remain present and active within us (see Paul describing that daily and enduring battle in Galatians 5:17 and Romans 7:14-24). In that battle the plan of the Psalmist in 119:11 and his ongoing prayer in v36 (see above) make good and wise sense. Remember the word of God is the sword of the Spirit (Ephesians 6:17), the main instrument by which He, the Spirit of God, works in us to cut out and kill what is sinful but also cultivate what is good and pleasing to Him. We want the Spirit to be at work in our hearts, so we need to be placing the word of God on a regular basis in his hands, so he can do that work.  So, with the Psalmist we read, we hear, we memorise, we meditate on God’s word (i.e. we hide it on our hearts) and pray for God by his Spirit to use that Word to incline our renewed hearts more and more to His statutes towards that Christlikeness which is his ultimate and eternal goal for us – the disordered life fully and finally restored in Christ.