This is week 12 of our series on Psalm 119, and we’re looking at verses 89 through 96.
This portion of the longest Psalm, also an acrostic based on the Hebrew alphabet, represents the 11th letter, known as Lemedh. It’s clear in this passage that God’s Word is settled, that He is faithful, that His creation is established, and that peace is available for those who choose to believe His Word and follow His way and His Truths.
It seems that Psalm 119, so far, has proven, as Thomas Manton, an English Puritan Clergyman from the mid-17th Century, once said, “Let us complain not of God, but to God. Complaints of God give a vent to murmuring; but complaints to God, to faith, hope, and patience.”
The answers we need as leaders are there. The support we need as guides and mentors is there. The wisdom we need as advisors is there. The influence we need as principals and pastors and C-suite executives is there.
But we must be in God’s Word to know it. If we do not seek it and consider it, we cannot remember and delight in it.
I pray this Lemedh portion of the Psalm 119 Hebrew alphabet acrostic becomes more to you than part of a poem, more than a song, but that it is the edification you need to take time to dig deeper into the words of our God, and the teachings of our Good, Great, and Chief Shepherd, and becomes the firm foundation upon which you shepherd the sheep entrusted to your care.
May you live deeply into your calling this week. Thank you for joining me.