Psalm 119, Verse 170

I feel greatly assured Adonai, for through Yeshua, my prayer is always before Thee. You have said to us that whatever we ask believing; with right motives and in Your name, we will receive. In addition You also said, "If You abide in Me, and My words abide in You, ask whatever You wish; and it shall be done for You." Furthermore You continued, "You did not choose Me but I chose you; and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit; and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to You." Were we to knit all these promises together, we shall find ourselves holding the certain comforting covering that when we pray, our prayer is before You. But I see that every promised is hinged on me. I need to abide in you, bear fruit, believe, pray with right motives and ask in Your name. O how I need You, Adonai. Help me for I want to experience each of these promises.

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.