Read Psalm 119: 137-144
Tsade is for "righteous"...
Righteous are you, O Lord, and your laws are right.
The statutes you have laid down are righteous;
they are fully right.
Psalm 119:137-138
God and His Word are never wrong...
He is always right... His Word... always... right...
Test it... the psalmist assures us they have been proved...
Your promises have been thoroughly tested...
found trustworthy...
...and Your servant loves them.
But in a broken world... a world bent on rebellion... it's hard to find righteousness... it's hard to find those who appreciate righteousness... there are plenty who want to be right... but to be told what is righteous... leaves us wrong...
My zeal wears me out, for my enemies ignore Your words...
Our Hebrew friend... worn out... consumed by his passion to see God's righteous Word upheld... what he loves... the world dismisses... disregards... rejects...
It's hard to be righteous... to stand for right... when everyone else ignores...
You are left feeling weird... an outsider... or... maybe... despised... ridiculed...
Trouble and distress have come upon me...
Loving what's right... in a wrong world... exhausts... however... I was reminded by a friend this week... that I am not where I belong... neither are you...
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.
In this world you will have trouble.
But take heart! I have overcome the world."
---Jesus
John 16:33
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