Psalm 119, Verse 172

Thy promises are so great and full of encouragement Adonai. The things that we can never imagine or are capable of achieving on our own, You cause us to experience and enjoy through Thy promises. Yet almost always, I observe that Your promises are conditional. They are hinged on my response to Your word. I have noticed that we often tend to quote or remind You of Your promises while ignoring the attached condition. But to those who are sincere to observe Your whole word rather than be selective, to them there is reason to sing and praise; and shout and dance. For such have come to realize that You are always true and righteous; a covenant-keeping God. All may fail but You will never. So grant us the sincerity dear Father to read and grasp Your word in all truth, not part, so that we can enter into the glorious promises You have given us in Yeshua.

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.