A Daily Devotional – Psalm 119:153-160 – Personal Meditation (20)

A Daily Devotional – Psalm 119:153-160 – Personal Meditation

Comment: When beginning these thoughts and meditation on Psalm 119 I commented to a friend and brother in Christ that I felt reluctant for starting the Psalm. Feeling that I was departing from the subject of “meditation” in MESSIAH/JESUS. Well to look back, that reluctance was nothing more than the flesh seeking to control me. We need to be careful to keep our soul in Christ and the Light of God’s Holy Word since the distractions of any day in the life of God’s children are plenty. Notice if you will the psalmist’s plea to the LORD for help in our section today. Now I ask each of us; “do we stop and pray/plead with the LORD to redeem us and our nation from the day’s afflictions” or do we just ‘bulldoze’ our way through the day like the unbelieving?

Devotional: Psalm 119:153-160

We should know that the writer of psalm 119 was no different than you or me in that; as a child of God we too will face the battle of internal and external struggles as we continue our walk of faith in God alone. A difference may be in the way we deal with persecution and devilish affliction.

The testing of our faith in God is precious to each of us, we are tempted, in many similar ways just as the writer of Psalm 119. He does not discuss specific details of his afflictions, but we do know from other passages that his affliction is a daily concern, we too should be concerned in that our day is full of affliction too. Whatever may be the cause for his affliction, it is the main subject and he is crushed by what he sees.  

Jeremiah (if he is the writer) was called the weeping prophet. Jeremiah was crushed over Israel’s sin, therefore he wrote the book of Jeremiah with a broken-heart. The comfort that the man Jeremiah claimed daily I believe, is found in the first chapter of Jeremiah where God explains this to him. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5).

If the writer were Jeremiah, what brings him through each day is resting in the law of God, that He is the Creator. Revival for the psalmist is the truth found in God’s Word. As well it is the same Truth that delivers you and me today. The advantage is that deliverance is not granted to the wicked, because they have failed to seek the statutes of God, thus they cannot experience the joy of God that you and I experience daily.

Great are the ‘tender mercies of the LORD’ His judgment reveal His justice in all confrontations with the world. Certainly it breaks the heart of every child of God to see our nation’s decline. Many good intending people of religious direction seek for a better future, yet these para-church ventures are not realized because they believe that money solves the problem. Wrong; it is the individual prayer and meditation, prayer like those of the psalmist who daily says, “I see the treacherous, and am disgusted, because they do not keep your Word.

The entirety of Your Word is Truth, and every one Your righteous judgments endures forever. This should be our banner throughout our day as we observe the treachery of men and women, who in the liberal media are blinded by Satan. These seek to destroy our freedoms by believing the lie of treachery.