Wholehearted Reliance on Truth

Psalms 119:145-152
ק QOPH

145 I cry out with my whole heart;
Hear me, O LORD!
I will keep Your statutes.

146 I cry out to You;
Save me, and I will keep Your testimonies.

147 I rise before the dawning of the morning,
And cry for help;
I hope in Your word.

148 My eyes are awake through the night watches,
That I may meditate on Your word.

149 Hear my voice according to Your lovingkindness;
O LORD, revive me according to Your justice.

150 They draw near who follow after wickedness;
They are far from Your law.

151 You are near, O LORD,
And all Your commandments are truth.

152 Concerning Your testimonies,
I have known of old that You have founded them forever.

This song begins with a wholehearted cry of a prayer aimed heavenward to be heard, and a promise to keep God’s truth from His word.  He hears those who do not allow sinful continuing disobedience to that word calling us to follow in holiness.  We find ourselves therefore confessing the sin we have aimed to avoid, but which we have missed the mark on in the weakness of this flesh (1 John 1:8-10, Romans 8:12-13).  Because He has saved us with such a great salvation, we strive to keep His word faithfully to the best of our ability by the enabling wisdom and power of His Spirit in us.  It is a good habit to rise each morning to pray and ask for strength and guidance to help us avoid sin and follow Him to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.  This is only possible if we truly and completely take God at His word-this means every word out of His mouth breathed onto the pages we read and seek to grasp into our hands and feet to live according to our calling.  Hope in His word leads to meditation on all He says and means for us, to guide our hearts and minds into that truth.  When we then cry out in prayer, we ask as the psalmist, to be heard and helped, to be revived by divine justice according to mercy and grace in Christ.  Otherwise, the sentence of the Judge would certainly convict us permanently and eternally (Romans 3:10, 19-20, 23-24, 26) as is just and fair.  We plead grace over judgment, and seek to follow in awe and trembling of the consequences we would have faced with the rest of mankind had He not intervened and taken the sentence of death upon Himself (2 Corinthians 1:9-10) for we who have been chosen and called out in Christ’s righteousness.  The ungodly who refuse to repent will continue to come after us because they are far from His truth and have no love for the scriptures (1 Peter 4:4-5); we know He is near us because we know the truth of His word, that everything is true and truly from Him.  We dare not explain away any part of it, just as Jesus reminds us that we cannot deny the smallest part (Matthew 5:18).  We know as it is written here that God founded His word forever (Psalm 119:89, Isaiah 40:8, 1 Peter 1:23, 25), before time itself, and it hold when the world has passed away along with the ticking clock of this existence.  We have found a wholehearted reliance of the completely reliable truths of the God’s word!