READING:
One-year plan: Psalms 119:103-128:6
Two-year plan: Ecclesiastes 9-12, Galatians 5:1-15
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To be honest, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it. And to be even more honest, it’s been a while since I’ve done it.
I’m thinking today about the psalmist’s words concerning people living in rebellion against God’s words. The psalmist so treasured the Word (as psalm 119 particularly shows) that he longed to hear it and loved to obey it. His zeal for God was surely obvious. His longing for the Word—sweeter than honey and greater than gold to him—was undeniable. It’s no wonder he responded as he did when he looked around to see many people paying little attention to God’s instruction: “My eyes pour out streams of tears because people do not follow your instruction” (Psa 119:136).
Here is the way Charles Spurgeon describes this picture: “He wept in pity for men who were thus drawing down upon themselves the fiery wrath of God. His grief was such that he could scarcely give it vent; his tears were not mere drops of sorrow, but torrents of woe.”* That’s what I’ve not seen in a while: deep, deep sorrow over those separated from their Creator and living in rebellion against Him. I’m just not sure we carry such a burden.
Beginning with me.
As you spend time with the Lord today, please pray for my burden to increase.
PERSONAL REFLECTION: Do you weep over non-believers?
PRAYER: “God, break my heart over those who do not know You.”
TOMORROW’S READING:
One-year plan: Psalms 129-139
Two-year plan: Song of Solomon 1-2, Galatians 5:16-26
MEMORIZATION VERSE (July 1-15)
“Let the whole earth shout to the Lord; be jubilant, shout for joy, and sing.” (Psa 98:4)
*Spurgeon, C. H. (n.d.). The treasury of David: Psalms 111-119 (Vol. 5, p. 380). Marshall Brothers.