Psalm 119, Verse 113

I believe nearly all men are guilty of being two-faced, Adonai. We often say what we do not mean. Seldom is there a Nathaniel to be found in whom there is no guile.

It is difficult to rely on what people say and more often than not, find that they cannot be trusted. Yet Your Word is not like man's, Adonai. I love Your Torah, the Psalms, the promises, the prophesies, the instructions. I love all that is in the Holy Bible because it is reliable, dependable, trustworthy and never-failing. It speaks the truth and only the truth. There is no attempt to gloss over what is hard or difficult. In it is comfort, encouragement, rebuke and wise counsel. We would have been directionless without Your Word, Adonai. Thank you for the grace You've shown by giving it to us.

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.