Today’s Word

The Eternal Optimist

Those who love Your Law have great peace, and nothing causes them to stumble.  Psalm 119:165  NASB Nothing – Wouldn’t that be nice?  Wouldn’t you jump at the chance to have “great peace; to live a life where nothing ever caused you to trip up”?  Sounds like paradise, or maybe heaven.  But it certainly doesn’t sound…
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The Call to Prayer

Seven times a day I praise You because of Your righteous judgments.  Psalm 119:164  NASB Seven times a day – Travel nearly anywhere in the region once the home of the psalmist and you will hear the call of the minaret.  Five times a day the wailing of the muezzin emanates from those tall towers dotting…
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Abomination

I hate and loathe falsehood, but I love Your Law.  Psalm 119:163  NASB Loathe – As you will recall, we encountered the English translated word “loathe” in verse 158.  There we discovered that the Hebrew qûṭ meant “intense disgust, repulsion,” in other words, something that makes you sick to your stomach.  Now we have the same English word,…
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Reward for the Conqueror

I rejoice at Your word, like one who finds great plunder.  Psalm 119:162  NASB Plunder – The poet expresses a feeling we might find embarrassing.  We don’t usually relish in taking booty from invasions.  So, we’ll have to reach way back in that collective unconscious to resurrect the exuberance that comes from the destruction of an enemy and…
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Shin

Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words.  Psalm 119:161  NASB שָׂ֭רִים רְדָפ֣וּנִי חִנָּ֑ם (ומדבריך) [וּ֝מִדְּבָרְךָ֗] פָּחַ֥ד לִבִּֽי Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart stands in awe of Your words. שָׂ֣שׂ אָ֭נֹכִי עַל־אִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ כְּ֝מוֹצֵ֗א שָׁלָ֥ל רָֽב I rejoice at Your word, like one who finds great plunder. שֶׁ֣קֶר שָׂ֭נֵאתִי וַאֲתַעֵ֑בָה תּוֹרָתְךָ֥ אָהָֽבְתִּי…
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Heads Up

The sum of Your word is truth, and every one of Your righteous judgments is everlasting.  Psalm 119:160 Sum – The head of the year.  The chief of the tribe.  The top of the mountain.  The corner stone.  The first of Mankind.  rōʾš, and all its derivatives, are found more than 750 times in Scripture, with a wide…
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