Comfort from His judgments

I was looking through my favorites, and I came across this particular link - Lunch-Time Thoughts it was called. Then I remembered... I have a blog! Sorry for the lag in posting, although I'm sure most of you hadn't noticed anyway. Well, let's just pick up anywhere.

Psalm 119:52 I remembered thy judgments of old, O LORD; and have comforted myself.

In this verse David makes the statements that by remembering the Lord's "judgments of old" that he comforted himself. In this Psalm, the word of God is referred to by a variety of terms, including "judgments." So, we could say that David is saying that by thinking on God's word, it brought comfort to him (Romans 15:4 - through patience and comfort of the Scripture).

However, if we take "judgments" as the more direct meaning of the word, we find that David comforted himself when he thought of how God dealt with people, and the decisions that He made towards them. When he thought of God's judging Sodom and Gomorrah too wicked to spare - it brought comfort. When he thought of God's flooding the world in the days of Noah, it brought comfort. When he thought of God kicking Adam and Eve out of the garden, it brought comfort. The only reason David could be, and we could be comforted by such things is when we recognize God's hatred for sin as a good thing - oh, and when we are in the right too!

At the same time, God judged people to be worthy recipients of His grace. What? you say. Worth of God's grace - impossible! Actually, no, all of us are worthy of His grace and mercy. Those that are whole have no need for a Physician. We are worthy in that we are so miserably helpless! So, God's judgment of Noah to receive grace. God choosing to bless Abraham, not because of anything he did, but simply because he believed God. These things also bring comfort.

So, let's be comforted knowing that the Judge of all the earth will do right.

Just a thought...