Hi, folks. It’s a new week. It’s the week where we transition from October to November, from the first to the second month of the final quarter of this wonderful magical carpet ride called 2024, leading us up to see the stars just a little closer, just before we take a sudden drop into the middle of the Pacific, or just into the crater of some active volcano. Whoopee!
First of all, I owe one and all who happen to be reading this an apology. I’m not so sure I had a full grip of what I was sharing last night, especially that last article I posted, but nevertheless, I’m keeping it all there, just as a small testimony of God’s faithfulness, even in the cringe. So sorry, and, really, thank you.
I’m doing quick posts today, here going through another ‘letter’ of Psalm 119 – Pretty soon I intend to nip our Sunday messages in the bud; this means a speedrun steady walk through 2 Timothy, coming very soon.
Again, I could be doing so many more things, especially with regards to making money… But for now, I’m just thankful for being sustained enough so I could continue doing things in my pace.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.
Psalms 119:17-24
GIMEL
Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.
We continue to give thanks to God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), for another perspective of His goodness towards us, and, even in this case, His goodness that leads us to repentance. You can say it that way – The Lord has dealt bountifully to us (goodness), and therefore we live, and therefore we keep His word (repentance).
In fact, you can also say that God has indeed dealt bountifully with us, by way of sending His Son, giving His Son to us – that we who believe not only receive, but also keep Christ. Christ is our Life, therefore we live. Christ is also our Word; Therefore, when we say we keep Christ, we keep the Word.
Finally, He is our Living Word whom we keep, but He is also the Word of Life, who keeps us.
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
And as we have believed and receive Christ, and as we are kept by Him, and He is kept by us – our entire beings are filled and soaked with His Spirit, much so that I make the claim that our eyes our opened – that, indeed, we may behold wondrous things ‘out of (His) law‘.
Every moment we spend reading the Word is well spent. Every portion of time we use writing about or otherwise meditating on Scripture, I dare say we behold wondrous things.
Personally, I’m reminded of Christ and His finished work. Whenever I read about it, write about it, listen to it, or speak on it, there’s always going to be some sort of reminder linking all of it to some aspect of our salvation, or ultimately some aspect of the goodness of God linked, again, to Jesus and/or His birth, death, resurrection and ascension… each and every time.
I am a sojourner on the earth; hide not your commandments from me!
My soul is consumed with longing for your rules at all times.
Therefore we find it necessary for us to keep coming back to the Word. Our days existing in this wretched world are draining; Our time alive in these bodies of clay is spent wandering in this earth, much so that our souls are consumed, hungry and starving for the Word.
In this hostile, ruthless wilderness of a world, we truly appreciate the wisdom of our Savior, when He says that we do not live by bread alone, but by the Word of God. We ARE hungry for the Word. We’re hungry, we long for the bread of Life, the Word of Life, at each and every turn. Though we know we are Christ’s, and Christ is ours, we would quickly long for him at a quick glance at the darkness.
Such is our dependence on Him. Such is our trust in Him.
You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.
Take away from me scorn and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies.
I was stopped slightly here, only to be reminded that we were once insolent and accursed ourselves. We were sinners who wandered from His commandments; in fact we were blind, oblivious, and nowhere near aware of them… but sinners we were, as we died just as any other man who paid the wages of sin.
Again, we find ourselves giving glory to God, for Christ, our Living Word, the Testimony who keeps us. While we were yet sinners, He loved us and gave His life for us, wanting to reconcile us to our Father, to fill each and every one of us with His Holy Spirit, and last but not least, to be with us; The Son, the Living Word, the Living Testimony, keeping us, and in so doing, purging away scorn and contempt from us as it comes.
We were insolent and accursed, wandering away from God’s Word…
But His Word came and kept us, and now we no longer hold on to scorn and contempt.
Even though princes sit plotting against me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.
Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
We are plotted against, but we acknowledge the Lord in all our own plans… and it is our thoughts that are established, while they remain in scorn. It is our steps that are established, while they stay still in contempt.
We give thanks to God, for His Word.
We thank God for Christ, who is our Living Word.
By the Word of Life, not only do we receive His insights and revelations, but just as important, we are sent counselors, and are made counselors for others.
Our God is worthy of all praise, glory and honor.
Until the next post (coming very soon), God bless you.
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