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January 29, 2007
A Different Point from the Same Word
A little later in Psalm 119
Tears stream from my eyes
because your law is disobeyed.
Oh, how hard this one is. What streams from me because God's law is disobeyed? Indignation, anger, sorrow. . . no, I'm afraid that most of the time, unless I'm the one doing it, it is indifference. Yes, I can get outraged about this and that occurrence but on a day by day basis, I do not sorrow the way I would if I were in a better place. I do not see how we hack off our feet and our hands by our choices. I am mostly numb--perhaps because the outrages are paraded before me in a never-ending stream. There are no tears and there should be. When we see the one we love offended there should be, at the very least, sorrow. There should be the desire to make right what has been put crooked and disrupted.
How foolish I am. I rejoice in the temporary things of this world and do not see the pit so many dig for themselves by actions contrary to the law of love.
That in itself should move a heart of stone. One wonders what the heart could be made of that remains unmoved.
Posted by Steven Riddle at January 29, 2007 10:16 AM
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