Psalm 119, Verse 91

It is amazing Sovereign Lord. All things obey You. From the sun that You commanded to go back ten steps in the days of Hezekiah, to the little raven that You commanded to feed Elijah in the days of the famine. From the least of creation to the greatest—all obey You. They all do what You command. They all recognize that You alone are the Sovereign King. As the disciples said with marvel when You lived on earth, "Even the wind and the sea obey You."

Yet mortal man rebels against Your authority and despises the ordinances that You in love and wisdom have commanded. We sit on the throne of our hearts instead of surrendering the reign to You and submitting to Your leadership. O Adonai, Thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, Thine alone. Give me grace that with the free will that I have been blessed with by You, I will choose Your ordinances and do Your bidding, as Your servant.

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.