Psalm 112
At the end of the last chapter we read that "Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom"
This Psalm kind of carries on the theme -
Blessed are thay who fear the LORD, who find great delight in his commands.
Their children will be mighty in the land, the generation of the upright will be blessed.
Delighting in god's command? What does that mean? Many of the laws of God I've been reading recently have been concerned with what animals are clean and what do to if one becomes ritually unclean.
Having said that many commands of God do make sense.
One of the people who inspired me to write this blog was a chap called AJ Jacobs who wrote a blog and a book called "my year of living Biblically" - in that book one of the things he found was that thinking about these things actually made him more thankful and thoughtful - so perhaps there is something in it!
In the Psalm, the righteous last forever with wealth and riches.
Even in the dark, the upright have light, no fear of bad news.
In the end they will look in triumph on their foes.
Who are these people? - those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous, generous and lend freely, they conduct their affairs with justice, freely scattering gifts to the poor.
I wish I was rather more like these people!
At the end of the last chapter we read that "Fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom"
This Psalm kind of carries on the theme -
Blessed are thay who fear the LORD, who find great delight in his commands.
Their children will be mighty in the land, the generation of the upright will be blessed.
Delighting in god's command? What does that mean? Many of the laws of God I've been reading recently have been concerned with what animals are clean and what do to if one becomes ritually unclean.
Having said that many commands of God do make sense.
One of the people who inspired me to write this blog was a chap called AJ Jacobs who wrote a blog and a book called "my year of living Biblically" - in that book one of the things he found was that thinking about these things actually made him more thankful and thoughtful - so perhaps there is something in it!
In the Psalm, the righteous last forever with wealth and riches.
Even in the dark, the upright have light, no fear of bad news.
In the end they will look in triumph on their foes.
Who are these people? - those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous, generous and lend freely, they conduct their affairs with justice, freely scattering gifts to the poor.
I wish I was rather more like these people!
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