{"id":2008,"date":"2007-03-26T02:10:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T02:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/03\/pleas-and-praises.html"},"modified":"2007-03-26T02:10:11","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T02:10:11","slug":"pleas-and-praises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/03\/pleas-and-praises.html","title":{"rendered":"Pleas and Praises"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve now come to the end of Psalm 119, the taw <\/em>section. Like much of the psalm, there is an interchange between pleading with God for deliverance and publicly confessing the psalmist’s commitment to God. In this section, that commitment shows up as praise.
\nIn 119:169-171 we read of the plea:
\nMay my cry come before you, O Lord;
\ngive me understanding according to your word.
\nMay my supplication come before you;
\ndeliver me according to your promise.
\nThis very common use of parallelism between the verses leads us to see line 1 and 3 as largely the same and lines 2 and 4 as complementing. His cry is a supplication; his understanding is as needful as his deliverance. He doesn’t just want God to make clear to him what is going on, he wants God to deliver him.
\nThis reminds me of John the Baptist sending two disciples to Jesus to ask if Jesus was or was not the “one who is to come.” I doubt John was “googling” Jesus for information; he wanted a specific answer (yes) so he could then make a plea — get me out of prison.
\nSo the psalmist: he pleas — as he’s done throughout the entire psalm — for deliverance.
\nHe seeks for insight from God’s Word; he expects deliverance because, knowing that Word, he knows God is faithful to his promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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