Psalm 119, Verse 123

I can witness, Adonai, how with perfect wisdom, You often choose to remain silent. To our natural mind, it appears as though You are doing nothing. As though You are far away or ignoring us. Your silence provides fodder for the enemy to taunt, "Where is your God?" Yet I can also testify that You were never far away from me. You were with me all the time, quietly encouraging me; quietly comforting me—while all the time strengthening me to persevere in hope and not give up. I have come to know that Your promises are true and You who gave them can never lie nor change Your mind. Yet I also know that You will fulfill Your promises only at Your perfect time. The examples of Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, the coming of Yeshua—all these and more are lasting proof of how You act with great power and perfect timing. So please teach us to wait and not give up.

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.