Poetic Companions

SCRIPTURE: Ps. 85:10-13
¹⁰ Love and faithfulness meet together;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
¹¹ Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
and righteousness looks down from heaven.
¹² The LORD will indeed give what is good,
and our land will yield its harvest.
¹³ Righteousness goes before him
and prepares the way for his steps.

OBSERVATION/APPLICATION: I was rushed today. I had to catch an early plane and was eating breakfast with my husband at the Corner Bakery before he took me to the airport. We were reading today's devotional verses together on the computer while we were eating, as we usually do. The beautiful poetry of these verses arrested my attention and caused me to stop and take a moment to appreciate the truths contained in them. The writer of the psalm used poetic devise to talk about things that go together; companions that walk together in our lives. Love and faithfulness; can you really have one without the other? I think not. If you truly love someone or something, you will be faithful to it. They really can't be separated. Then righteousness and peace "kiss" each other. How true! Right living causes us to have peace because we have no guilt to rob us of it. We have confidence with God when we live rightly. How skilled was the author in using these words to paint a picture of such a wondrous truth.

PRAYER: Thank you Lord for the gift of wisdom given to us in such lovely language. Words themselves are gifts from you. Thank you for speech and the written word. May I live by the truths revealed here, and may they be evident in my life to others who know me. In Jesus' Name, Amen.