Psalm 119, Verse 68

The more I think about You Lord, the more I see Your beauty and glory. When I consider how good You are, two things come to my mind—Your goodness and Your excellence. In everything You do, both these attributes are visible.

All that You do is from a heart of goodness and kindness and mercy; always wanting for us the best; plans to prosper us, to give us a future and a hope.

Yet whatever You do is also excellent. When You created the heaven and the earth, You looked at what You did and saw that it was very good. So too in my life Lord, I see that whatever You do in me is not only for my welfare but is also marvellous in Your sight. Continue to teach me Your laws Adonai that I may experience more of Your goodness and perfect work in me.

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.