Psalm 119:17-24 - Gimmel- From the routes we drive to our daily destinations, to color combinations when we dress, what we order at different restaurants – everything we do proclaim us to be creatures of habit. We feel safe and in control when life follows deeply etched paths within the familiar. Consequently one can be a little disconcerted to discover even good habits can prove detrimental. When we settle into patterns which hinder us from reaching our full potential or settle for less than what God has for us we indeed do ourselves great disservice. In verse seventeen of today’s meditation the psalmist prays for God to “deal bountifully” with him. Bountiful means generous, liberal, unsparing, freehanded, magnanimous, and we are barely scratching the surface of all this word entails.
Immediately we are moved beyond the realms of human imagination because 1 Corinthians 2: 9 clearly states, “Eye have not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” Once our eyes are opened by the Holy Spirit we quickly embrace the truth of being strangers in this world. The scales of ignorance, disbelief, and doubt will eventually fall off and we will for the first time see the freedom contained in God’s perfect Law of liberty. What, there is beauty in the Law? You bet your eternity on it. God’s laws are more than a moth-eaten collection of do’s and don’ts. Our blessed hope i.e. Christ’s second coming, is based on the Law of life in Christ Jesus that frees us from the law of sin and death.
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