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Psalm 119 – Day 5

ג Gimel

Psalm 119:17-20

Be good to your servant while I live, that I may obey Your word. Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in Your law. I am a stranger on earth; do not hide Your commands from me. My soul is consumed with longing for Your laws at all times.

The Thought

The first two verses of this post today could be prayed by any of us at any time. If we are wanting to serve the living Lord Jesus, then we want (and expect) God to be good to us. Sometimes we are very surprised when bad things happen to us or to other believers around us. Unfortunately we live in a fallen world, where many people do not know God and seek their own interests and desires, not caring about others they meet along the way. Christians in many parts of the world suffer because of the persecution they receive from non-believers, and people from other faiths.

The words stranger on earth can be used to describe many serious believers today. So much of the world seems to be spiralling downwards and heading for hell at an increasing speed, that many true believers feel like strangers even in the places they have lived for most of their lives.

Something in the verses today reminds me of the Ethiopian eunuch, who was reading the prophet Isaiah, in the days following Pentecost, and needed somebody to help him understand. The apostle Philip, miraculously, was in just the right place at the right time.

Action

Pray today that you will be “in the right place at the right time” to be used by God in whatever way He needs.

Read Acts 8:26-40 for the story of the Ethiopian eunuch and pray for help for those who read the word, but have difficulty understanding it.

Remember in prayer, those organisations who care for persecuted christians across the world.

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