Psalm 119 was my reading today from the Old Testament. It's the longest chapter in the ENTIRE Bible, and the chapter immediately following the middle chapter of the Bible. It has 176 verses and in EVERY SINGLE VERSE King David references God's Word. He's pretty creative in that he uses different terms for God's Word: promises, commands, precepts, decrees, statutes, principles, word, law, testimonies, etc. As if that's not enough, if you were to look at this chapter in the original Hebrew you'd discover that the whole thing is an acrostic using the entire alphabet one letter at a time.
It's an amazingly complex and creative effort on King David's part. I wonder how long it took him? I wonder what gave him the idea? But as I step back from all of that I see what he really wanted us to grasp. In all shapes and forms, in complexity and simplicity, in creativity and in every aspect of life… God's Word is central and vital and lifegiving to us.
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