“I hate the two-faced, but I love your clear-cut revelation. You’re my place of quiet retreat; I wait for your Word to renew me. Get out of my life, evildoers, so I can keep my God’s commands. Take my side as you promised; I’ll live then for sure. Don’t disappoint all my grand hopes. Stick with me and I’ll be all right; I’ll give total allegiance to your definitions of life. Expose all who drift away from your sayings; their casual idolatry is lethal. You reject earth’s wicked as so much rubbish; therefore I lovingly embrace everything you say. I shiver in awe before you; your decisions leave me speechless with reverence.”
Psalm 119:114 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.
The intimacy displayed by David, the psalmist, toward God is almost shocking to me. Â It is almost as intimate as one might speak to a spouse or a lover. Â There’s daring, there’s pleading, there’s baring, there’s honesty, there’s promises, there’s incredulous pleasure, there’s respect, and there’s friendship. Is your relationship with God as personal as that, gentle reader, or do you maintain only a cool civility?
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