Thou knowest the hearts of each one, Adonai. Nothing is hidden from Thy eyes. Thou knowest if we merely read Thy word because as Christians it is a good thing to do; or if we truly love Thee and desire with all our heart to learn of Thee, Thy ways, Thy commands and all that pleases Thee. Accordingly, I can testify how You give sight to the blind, so that text which was once hidden from our eyes suddenly becomes revelation. Like, those whom You healed when You were on earth, Yeshua, I too cry, "I can see! I can see! The Lord has shown me mercy." May Thy grace always be over me, Adonai. It is the most valuable blessing I hold to each day. By it I am comforted. Because of it I am enabled. On account of it, I thrive in my relationship with You.
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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