It’s amazing go me how often I can miss the forest for the trees. This is especially true when it comes to actually noticing God’s grace at work in my life. I was reading Psalm 119 because that’s where I am in the ESV Daily Reading Plan. And I came across verse 29.
“Put false ways far from me
and graciously teach me your law!” (Psalm 119:29, ESV)
It struck me that David would describe God’s act of teaching him the law as gracious. When I think of Moses bringing the Ten Commandments to Israel, my first thought of how gracious God is being. And when I read my Bible, I’m usually thinking, “time to get my Bible reading in,” not, “time to receive God’s grace.” Of all the ways that I think of how God gives us grace, I wasn’t considering God’s graciousness in giving his law, his words.
But God gave us words like this:
“For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39)
And words like this:
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1, ESV)
God has given us a wealth of his words so that we may know about ourselves and ultimately about him. God has given us his law, his words graciously! What seems so ordinary as a Bible is a gigantic mark of God’s unmerited favor. And I am grateful.