A LIFE which MODELS - Psalm 119:73-80 (God's Alphabet Song of Truth-Yodh) #10

These are days when words of truth are in short supply.  When the one word flung back-n-forth, between leading presidential candidates, like a dirty-bomb full of nails, is "liar."

Honestly, don't you think twice before turning on the television these days (February 2016)?  The media is completely beholden to the fracas.  There is scarcely nothing to admire about angry men and women making statements they cannot substantiate, promises they will never be able to keep.  Perhaps there is an exemplary candidate or two.  Clearly, they're painfully in short supply.

Enough already.  Does anyone have a broad, sweeping filter to clean the air?

Perhaps the Psalmist...

Your hands have made and fashioned me,

give me understanding that I may learn Your commandments.

Those who fear You shall see me and rejoice,

because I have hoped in Your word.

I know, O Lord, that Your rules are righteous,

and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

Let Your steadfast love comfort me

according to Your promise to Your servant.

Let Your mercy come to me, that I may live

for Your law is my delight.

Let the insolent be put to shame,

because they have wronged me with falsehood;

as for me, I will meditate on Your precepts.

Let those who fear You turn to me,

that they may know Your testimonies.

May my heart be blameless in Your statutes,

that I may not be put to shame.

Line one affirms that God's hands have "made" and (literally) "given me a firmness."  That firmness comes Divine hands instilling a strength drawn from a Divine word.  The writer has a knowledge about what is right, about God's steadfast love and promises, about being able to withstand false accusations and barbs.

"Let those who fear You turn to me..." - this is not a boast, but a desire to have a life which is exemplary and winsome, a life that "whets the appetite" of others for God.  

He was often dismissed and belittled.  He bore burdens the extent of which none would know save the Lord Himself.  He became, arguably, our greatest president.  Abraham Lincoln said it, All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

Spent some time with God and His Word.  Let your heart be blameless, and exemplary, in His statutes.