The Devotional - 1520 - The NAME above all names

The Devotional – 1520 – The NAME above all names

Psalm 119:145-152 – I cry out with my whole heart; hear me, O Lord! I will keep Your statutes. I cry out to You; save me, and I will keep Your testimonies. I rise before the dawning of the morning, and cry for help; I hope in Your word. My eyes are awake through the night watches, that I may meditate on Your word. Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness; O Lord, revive me according to Your justice. They draw near who follow after wickedness; they are far from Your law. You are near, O Lord, and all Your commandments are truth. Concerning Your testimonies, I have known of old that You have founded them forever. 

Comments and Challenges: KOPH

1.       145 – I have called with my whole heart; answer me YAHWEY! I will keep Your STATUTES.

2.       146 – I have called to You, save me! I will obey Your STATUTES

3.       147 – I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in Your WORDS.

4.       148 – My eyes stay open in the night watches, that I might meditate on Your WORD.

5.       149 – Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness. Revive me YAHWEY Your ORDINANCES.

6.       150 – The draw near who follow after wickedness, they are far from Your LAW.

7.       151 – You are near YAHWEY; all of Your COMMANDMENTS are truth.

8.       152 – Of old I have known Your TESTIMONIES, THAT You have founded them forever.

The Hebrew word for LORD is Yahweh and is found 24 times throughout the 22 sections of Psalm 119. This should be important to all of us who claim to be saved by God’s “lovingkindness” the Old Testament word for “grace”. LORD is the psalmist preferred name to “Creator God”, it is the psalmist “personal” talk with God. This should be the same talk for ALL of us that have a personal relationship with our Creator. In awesome reverence for HIM we can have a personal reverent name, the NAME that is above all names and that would be; even today LORD. Note the Apostle Peter’s response to the LORD in John 21:15-19.

He is not our “pal” or even our “bosom buddy” He is the CREATOR GOD of the universe. Yet, He is a friend that sticks closer than a brother, therefore while being KING of kings He always remains LORD of lords; this is why the psalmist can speak with meaning and purpose when he says to his personal God, “I call out to You with my whole heart and LORD, I will keep Your STATUTES. Or, I have called You, deliver me! I will obey Your STATUTES. The writer is NO different from you are me, we run in the circles of the believing and the unbelieving and sometimes we are the ones in the fiery furnace.

Now do not take this wrong the “believing pray” they are doing what God has called them to do and ever-so often believers do come to one’s aid; this too is a calling from God. But the unbelieving say comforting things too, like; “Oh you poor thing!” “Well, good luck to ya, see ya later… maybe!” Yet while the believing are doing their assigned task and the unbelieving are making life depressing; your LORD is very, very near and He does stick close to you when everyone else is busy, or fleeing.

Why? Because what GOD COMMANDS He does in Truth. How do we know that? Because God founded His TESTIMONIES before the earth was formed and for six thousand years plus of human history NOTHING has change ONE TESTIMONY of the LORD. And if we are not thinking of these AWESOME attributes of Our Personal God in times of trouble, than we are no different that the unbelieving who do not have a personal God. These folks look at the same Creator God whose Name to them is ELOHIM, which is the impersonal Name God uses in JUDGMENT.