{"id":1924,"date":"2007-02-28T02:10:16","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/02\/right-god-right-love.html"},"modified":"2007-02-28T02:10:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T02:10:16","slug":"right-god-right-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/02\/right-god-right-love.html","title":{"rendered":"Right God, Right Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The psalmist believes God is righteous and has spoken words in Torah that are right and that can guide God’s people. But those two convictions are at odds with others: they evidently don’t believe either of his convictions. How does he respond? Here are his words:
\n139 \tMy zeal wears me out,
\nfor my enemies ignore your words.
\n140 \tYour promises have been thoroughly tested,
\nand your servant loves them.
\n141 \tThough I am lowly and despised,
\nI do not forget your precepts.
\n143 \tTrouble and distress have come upon me,
\nbut your commands give me delight.
\nHis utter zeal — undeterred commitment — wears him down, annihilates him because his enemies ignore God’s words. He is grieved by the ignorance of others<\/em>.
\nIn spite of his enemies’ approach to the words of God, the psalmist tests the promises of the Torah and loves them. He tests the words of God<\/em>.
\nTested as he might be, he will not forget the precepts. He will not forget<\/em>.
\nDistress leads him back to the righteous God and he finds God’s commands utter delight — delight in delight, delightful delight, or delightful delightfulness. He delights in God’s right laws<\/em>.
\nA God who is right prompts in the psalmist a love for the right things — the right people, the right laws, the right God, and to a grief over what is not right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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