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Psalms 119:105-112 CEB

N. Nun

Your word is a lamp before my feet and a light for my journey.
I have sworn, 
and I fully mean it: 
I will keep your righteous rules.
I have been suffering so much - LORD, make me live again according to your promise.
Please, 
LORD, 
accept my spontaneous gifts of praise. 
Teach me your rules
Though my life is constantly in danger, 
I won't forget your Instruction.
Though the wicked have set a trap for me, 
I won't stray from your precepts.
Your laws are my possession forever because they are my heart's joy.
I have decided to keep your statutes forever, every last one.   
Psalms 119:105-112 CEB
This is the whole segment of Ps 119 (remember there's 22 segments, each one representing a letter of the Hebrew alphabet).
The thing that jumped out was the intentionality:
Even though - I will.
Even though - I will.
The psalmist "even though" will be different to ours, the invitation is the same:
To choose to stay in the Truth, to remind ourselves of what is True, to choose to turn on the lamp and light of who God is no matter what our circumstances.
Is that easy?
Not for me anyway. 
That's why we need one another to hold truth and hope and light for each other in the struggles and suffering of this life.
Are you holding the light today?
Or do you need it held for you?
Maybe it's a bit of both...
#inthistogether 
#psalms
#psalm119
#lightforthenextstep

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