Limitless

DEVOTION

PSALMS

LIMITLESS

Ps 119:89-96

89 Lamedh

Your word, O LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens. 90 Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth, and it endures. 91 Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you. 92 If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my affliction. 93 I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life. 94 Save me, for I am yours; I have sought out your precepts. 95 The wicked are waiting to destroy me, but I will ponder your statutes. 96 To all perfection I see a limit; but your commands are boundless.

NIV

Day twelve in the longest psalm. Yesterday we ended with a declaration we would take our stand and today we are assured the word of the Lord is eternal and it stands firm in the heavens. We might falter in our stand from time to time, but God’s word never falters, and it has always been and will always be and it is always ready to be applied to our lives. But this is not all, we are also assured of his faithfulness for it endures through all generations. That is us. We are part of the all generations. Those who preceded us and those who follow us, all of us are recipients of his faithfulness. Now we get to the age old argument the environmentalist and some of us believers get into. The Lord established the earth and it endures. It was the same the day he established it as it was the day the psalmist penned those words and it remains the same today. God established the earth and it endures, it remains, it does not change, it stays, which is the meaning of the Hebrew word translated endures. Who do some people think that are that they could change, or have any effect on, that which God established to endure? It is just like his law which endures and all things serve him. All things serve him. That is a powerful statement. Everything serves the Lord, or we could say serves his purpose. Everything that exists, the whole earth, the solar system, the galaxy as well as the entire universe serves him. This would include all living things. Even those who are considered evil serve him or his purpose. But his law, which now rests firmly in Jesus, is our delight. If we were not delighted in Jesus, as still are, for that matter, we would have perished in our former life of distress. But now that we know Jesus, we will never forget him or his love and faithfulness toward us for he has and will always preserve our life. The psalmist asked the Lord to save him, but we need not ask, for we are saved, we are in Christ. We also have the Holy Spirit as a deposit, a guarantee of our inheritance. We have sought out the law of the Lord, we have sought out Jesus. Some would say that Jesus found us, but the truth is we found Jesus. The only way to find someone, such as Jesus, is to look for him, seek him, and search for him. It does not matter who wants to destroy us, they will not prevail for we ponder on Jesus, the statutes of the Lord, and he is everything, the law, precepts, statutes, faithfulness and love that endures forever. All that we think is perfect or complete has a limit, but the commands of the Lord, Jesus is boundless, roomy in every direction as the Hebrew word means. Because we are in Christ, we are therefore boundless. That is we are roomy in every direction without limits, no walls, no end to the room, in fact there are no walls, we live in the boundlessness of Jesus. There is no limit to our life, it has not walls, not boundaries. we are limitless.