Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Psalm 119, Verse 156



How great is Your compassion Adonai. We live and exist on account of it. Day after day, with overflowing grace, mercy and kindness, You have poured forth Your love and compassion on us. This is why I feel that people who say that they are in "a God-forsaken-world" do not know what they are talking about.
Furthermore, just as You said, "I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion," I recognise Your election and choosing over my life. Your calling over my life, through Yeshua, is too great and lofty. Let my heart always value the fact that through this compassion, though once I had no God, today, You are my living, Most High God; and though once I was not Your chosen people, now, I have become Your precious possession. Baruch Adonai Elohim! Blessed be Your Name, Lord God for Thou alone is worthy of all praise.




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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