first try

good morning all! its wednesday...which means middle of the work week. i'm a bit tired and moving a bit slow this morning, but i'm sure i'll wake up a little more in the next little bit.
the phones seem to be picking up a little lately...which is nice! things around here have been a little too slow lately and that makes for very long days, so i don't mind the pick up in pace.
so i'm not sure about you, but this arkansas weather is driving me crazy...it can't seem to make up its mind. which makes getting dressed in the mornings very hard. it was 36 degrees this morning when i left my house and the forcast says its supposed to be 73 before the end of the day. so this morning, i had to make sure that i had something on warm enough that i wouldn't freeze in 36 degree weather and that i will still be able to wear once the temp has reached 73 later...:shakes head:...way too difficult.

so this morning i read some of Psalm 119 in my quiet time and it kind of struck me differently than it ever has before. verses 103-105 made me stop and think:

103How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. 105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

now...i don't know about you, but i rarely think about how sweet scripture really is. how often do i (especially as a female) crave chocolate; once i start craving it, there is nothing to curb that craving besides finding some and placing that sweet melty piece of chocolate in my mouth. as i got to thinking about the sweetness of God's Word this morning, it made me sad to think that i don't crave for It in the same way or moreso than i do chocolate...God's Word should be sweeter to me than even chocolate! but the psalmist doesn't stop there...he goes on to say that because we are devouring God's words, it causes us to hate false (or wrong) ways (aka...sins)! i fail to truly hate sin. i become so calloused to the "little" sins around me and in my own life that, little by little, i'm not so disgusted with the very things to put Christ on the cross. this verse woke my thinking up this morning as it reminded me that i should hate even those "little sins". and then, as if the psalmist (under inspiration of Holy Spirit) knew that i'd be feeling completely at a loss at this point, says that we have help. thinking about the fact that i don't hate sin the way i should, i feel hopeless to think that in my fleshly state, i will not be able to hate sin completely. but then the psalmist points out that God doesn't expect us to do it on our own. His Word will guide us step by step. which brings it full circle...if we're in The Word, we will hate sin and we can only hate sin if we're in The Word.
just some food for thought...

many loves,
meg