Psalm 119, Verse 60

So many times, in different ways, You have made it known to us Adonai that our days on earth are few. Our entire lifetime is just a moment before You. To add to this, You have also warned that we are living in the last hour and that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

We know that the choices we make every day have eternal consequences, yet we are often like those in slumber. The way we live each days exposes this mindset, where we place on the backburner the truth that at Thy judgement, each one will be recompensed according to what he has done. Such an attitude can be very, very costly.

I plead with You Saviour, that You stir in each heart an awakening, so that we live as though this day may be our last. I ask that with a renewed mind, we quickly prioritize the urgent need to store for ourselves treasures in heaven. May we make haste and be quick to obey all Your commands, lest we regret in eternity.

Lately, I have found myself drawn to Psalm 119. Charles Spurgeon beautifully describes it thus:

There is no title to this Psalm, neither is any author's name mentioned. It is not just long only; but equally excels in breadth of thought, depth of meaning, and height of fervour. It is like the celestial city which lieth four square, and the height and the breadth of it are equal. Many superficial readers have imagined that it harps upon one string, and abounds in pious repetitions and redundancies; but this arises from the shallowness of the reader's own mind: those who have studied this divine hymn, and carefully noted each line of it, are amazed at the variety and profundity of the thought.

It contains no idle word; the grapes of this cluster are almost to bursting full with the new wine of the kingdom. The more you look into this mirror of a gracious heart the more you will see in it. Placid on the surface as the sea of glass before the eternal throne, it yet contains within its depths an ocean of fire, and those who devoutly gaze into it shall not only see the brightness, but feel the glow of the sacred flame. It is loaded with holy sense, and is as weighty as it is bulky.

The Psalm is alphabetical. Eight stanzas commence with one letter, and then another eight with the next letter, and so the whole Psalm proceeds by octonaries quite through the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet, from Aleph to Tau.

I thought I should post a verse each day in the hope that we all, including myself, may get an opportunity to reflect on them.