Today, I am reading and commenting on Psalms 18-22.

I love the imagery of God responding to the distress call of one who loves Him.  As a lover of Fantasy genre fiction, I imagine these images as God responding to the protagonist of a fantasy novel.  It reminds me of scenes in such novels where I, as the reader, think of the antagonist, “You done messed up now.”  I wrote that as a sort of introduction as I intend to focus on what the psalmist writes about God’s Laws and commands in Psalm 19.  The beginning of Psalm 19 says the same thing which Paul writes in the first chapter of his letter to the Romans particularly what he writes in verse twenty.  “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”  The psalmist tells us that God’s statutes are trustworthy and make the simple wise.  Which is the exact opposite of what Paul wrote about the results of rejecting God.  I am reminded of the Youtube debates I have seen lately between some “progressive Christians”, who reject certain Biblical passages because they think they know better, and some Christian apologists, who base their understanding of right on wrong on what the Bible says rather than what they would like to be the case.  “The precepts of the Lord are right,…” We may think otherwise, but doing as God commands will give joy to the heart, no matter if we think otherwise.  “The commands of the Lord are radiant,…” by them we see the world correctly and truly learn wisdom.  The psalmist tells us that the problem with thinking that we can pick and choose that some parts of the Bible are right and some parts are wrong is that we cannot discern our own errors.  God gave us the Bible so that we might have a standard by which to measure right and wrong.  If we perceive that one part of the Bible tells us that another part is wrong, then our understanding of what one, or both, of those parts of the Bible is what is wrong.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.