Just as a manufacturer of a product knows what is needed for the effective and smooth functioning of the equipment, in much the same way, You O Maker knows precisely what we, Your handiwork, need for life in all its fullness. In great love, righteousness and faithfulness, Thou hast given us Thy instructions. He that keepeth them, to them You have promised that it will go well. Yet unlike a product, You have given man the option to choose if we would keep Your instructions or not. They that have chosen the former will gladly testify that it is the best and wisest decision they have made. Such have come to realize that the Giver of these instructions is their Father who out of great love, wisdom, righteousness and faithfulness has commanded what is good and perfect. Please give many more this heart of wisdom.
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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