Teach me to do your will, for you are my God! Let your good Spirit lead me on level ground! For your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble! And in your steadfast love you will cut off my enemies, and you will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am your servant.

How rich. How comforting. How filled with compassion. Betty and I finished our nightly reading the of TableTalk monthly devotional and found that it applied to this passage. An interesting article discussing the LORD’s impassibility vs, man’s passibility. Quick definition of each is that man responds to agents outside himself (think of the immediate salutatory reaction to the aroma of a properly prepared steak on the grill-that’s being passible) and cannot avoid be responsive vs the LORD who does not respond to any outside agency.

Now go back and read that passage with the knowledge that the LORD, God, the Almighty is IMPASSIBLE! That’s comfort. That’s compassion.

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Reading

Morning Psalm 70, Noon Psalm 119:57-64, Evening Psalm 4. If you follow this regimen, you will pray through the Psalms every 47 days or just under 8 times per year.

An alternate Reading Plan is based on 7 chapters/day from 7 sections of the Scriptures. My groupings are: Genesis-Joshua, Judges to Esther, Job to Song of Solomon, Psalms breaking 119 into convenient sets, Isaiah to Malachi, Matthew to Acts, Romans to Revelation.

Or set your own reading schedule up in convenient groupings as fits your study habits. But a daily time in the Word of the LORD is an absolute.