Today I'm sitting in the computer lab in the library, with just a few minutes before I have a handbells rehearsal. It's a busy day, but I wanted to take a few minutes to read today's passage and reflect on it.
The very first verse of this passage caught my eye right away! Here's the whole passage:
73 Your hands made me and formed me;
give me understanding to learn your commands.74 May those who fear you rejoice when they see me,
for I have put my hope in your word.
75 I know, LORD, that your laws are righteous,
and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.
76 May your unfailing love be my comfort,
according to your promise to your servant. 77 Let your compassion come to me that I may live,
for your law is my delight.
78 May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause;
but I will meditate on your precepts.
79 May those who fear you turn to me,
those who understand your statutes.
80 May I wholeheartedly follow your decrees,
that I may not be put to shame.
I was made and formed by God's hands!! That is so exciting! Just imagine, God who is all good (see yesterday's post) made ME. And he made YOU, and everyone else in the world! Because he made us, he gives us all things, including understanding to learn his commands.
There are two verses in this passage that begin "May those who fear you" (see Proverbs 1:7). Those who fear God are those who love and trust in him above all things, who know that he's God and they aren't. The psalmist is asking to be an example to other believers. I pray that I can be as well.
Verse 76 is my favorite: God's unfailing love is my comfort, because he has promised it to me! At a time like right now when I'm so busy, it's so encouragaging to know that I'm loved unfailingly by the God who made and formed me.
That's what I'm going to remember today.
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