Thursday, July 3, 2008

Bible Reading: Psalms 119:103-104

How sweet to my tongue is your promise,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Through your precepts I gain insight;
therefore I hate all false ways.

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This psalm is known as "A Prayer to God, the Lawgiver" and is arranged with a verse assigned to each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, starting with Aleph, Beth, Gimel...

It's like a sacred version of the child's song, "Now I learn my A B C's...."

Mem, which I quote from here above, concerns how much God's teaching, including his corrections, should be a source of joy and love. I would think that people would, like their forefathers and mothers before them, share joy in knowing what God expects of people and will judge them regarding, rather than obfuscating and trying to deny his standards, his teachings and his expectations.