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Where to find mercy and one thing to do with it

A request for mercy from the Merciful One who has ample, abundant mercy:

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart:
be merciful unto me according to thy word.

The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy:
teach me thy statutes.

(Psalm 119:58,64)

I take the closing of verse 64 like this:

“You who are so merciful and have shown me mercy,
teach me Your truths and ways…
and so shall I be very merciful also.”

So, yes. I need mercy — lots of it all the time — for me personally. Continue reading →

A theme I noticed in Psalm 119:81-88

I’ve known for decades that God’s Word is mentioned in all but one or two of the 176 verses in Psalm 119.

Only recently (as in, a month of two ago) did I notice that each eight-verse section seems to have its own overarching theme. For example, this morning I read the section with verses 81-88:

  1. “My soul fainteth…”
  2. “Mine eyes fail…When wilt thou comfort me?”
  3. “For I am become like a bottle in the smoke…”
  4. “…them that persecute me?”
  5. “The proud have digged pits for me…”
  6. “…they persecute me wrongfully…”
  7. “They had almost consumed me…”
  8. “Quicken me after thy lovingkindness…”

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