Psalm 119:113-120
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Samekh
113
I hate the double-minded,
but I love your law.
114
You are my hiding place and my shield;
I hope in your word.
115
Depart from me, you evildoers,
that I may keep the
commandments of my God.
116
Uphold me according to your promise, that I may live,
and let me not be put to
shame in my hope!
117
Hold me up, that I may be safe
and have regard for your
statutes continually!
118
You spurn all who go astray from your statutes,
for their cunning is in
vain.
119
All the wicked of the earth you discard like dross,
therefore I love your
testimonies.
120
My flesh
trembles for fear of you,
and I am afraid of your judgments.
I have always
told my children and students that they should choose friends that bring out
the best in them, not the worst in them.
I believe this passage speaks of this as well as David recognizes that
some people are possibly a little “two faced”.
They may say they are loyal to God, yet at the same time, they cannot
seems to find time for Him. All of us
have probably been there at some point in our lives but if we truly love Him we
will find the time to have Him in our lives.
Often times I
think we forget about the fact that we need to fear God. I hear more and more songs today about how
much God loves us and less and less about how we should fear Him. I remember as a child that much of my good
behavior came about because I feared my dad.
Not in a negative way, I knew how much he loved me and I wanted to
please him but I also knew there would be consequences to my bad behavior. I believe that is a godly example of how we
need to also view our Heavenly Father.
We know that He loves us, we want to please Him, yet we should fear the
consequences of not placing Him first in our lives. We need to seek Him and know that He is God
and is worthy of our praise as well as our trembling fear.
Seeking Him with
all my heart,
Sheila
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