Month: November 2009

LOVE OVERLOOKED

The earth, O Lord, is full of your steadfast love; teach me your statues.  Psalm 119:64

Every day the earth showcases fresh outpourings of God’s steadfast love. The sun comes up.  The earth stays on its axis.  Oxygen is plentiful.  Rain falls.  Crops grow.  Deep springs are replenished to provide water.  We are such a speck in the solar system, so fragile in the big scheme of things.  It wouldn’t take much to set us off course so that sustaining life would become impossible.  Just read about any other planet and it’s a sobering experience. Continue reading “LOVE OVERLOOKED” →

HOW OFTEN I FORFEIT FAVOR

I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.  Psalm 119:58

There are many who feel that God’s favor is owed to them.  Perhaps this describes the majority of God’s creation.  They believe that they do more good than bad.  Because of how that set of scales reads, they believe that God owes them pleasure and ease. Continue reading “HOW OFTEN I FORFEIT FAVOR” →

TIME AND COURAGE TO PONDER

When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies.  Psalm 119:59

It is one thing to say I love God’s ways and will follow them for the rest of my life but another thing entirely to consider the ways my beliefs and actions betray God’s ways.  There are always the obvious sins but what about the subtle ways I neglect doing what Christ would do in my situation? Continue reading “TIME AND COURAGE TO PONDER” →

CHOICES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

This blessing has fallen to me, that I have kept your precepts.  Psalm 119:56

The descent to depravity is a gradual one.  A series of bad choices, starting with what seems like small ones, ends up taking someone to ruin.  At the end of the trail, one shakes their head and wonders how they got there.  Choices. Continue reading “Choices And Their Implications” →

I’M SORRY FOR GOD 

Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.  Psalm 119:53

            The writer of this emotional admission wasn’t horrified (meaning of indignation) for himself.  He wasn’t the one who was wronged.  God was.  He was so emotionally connected to God that when God was wronged, He felt it.  Continue reading “I’M SORRY FOR GOD” →

UNBROKEN PROMISES

Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.  Psalm 119:49

Sometimes, we don’t like to be reminded of the promises we’ve made.  Usually the reminder comes because the person we promised perceives that we have forgotten.  We are acting in a such a way that leaves them shaken about the strength of our word.  Continue reading “UNBROKEN PROMISES” →