Who is it that breaks Your laws, Adonai, but those who know them? We are filled with a generation of preachers that proclaim only what "sells" to their congregation because they are surrounded by people that only want their ears tickled. I shudder when I think of the parable you narrated to the teachers of the law in Your day, Yeshua (Mt. 21:33-45)—how those who were entrusted in bringing to the owner of the vineyard the produce of the field not only failed to do so but also rejected those whom he sent to warn them (the Prophets and finally the Son). If You took away what was entrusted to that set of "leaders" then, You are able to do it again, unless there is a turning around in sincere repentance. The time has come for You Adonai to act. Yet I pray for opportunity once more, O God of all mercy and overflowing compassion, that Your people will love You with a sincere, undistracted, single-minded devotion and obey Your commands with all their heart.
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.
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