Whole Truth

Ps 119:160 All of your words are truth.

Every one of your righteous ordinances

endures forever.

SIN AND SHIN

161 Princes have persecuted me without a

cause, But my heart stands in awe of your

words.

162 I rejoice at your word, As one who

finds great spoil.

163 I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your

law.

164 Seven times a day, I praise you,

Because of your righteous ordinances.

165 Those who love your law have great

peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

166 I have hoped for your salvation, Yhwh.

I have done your commandments.

167 My soul has observed your testimonies.

I love them exceedingly.

168 I have obeyed your precepts and your

testimonies, For all my ways are before

you.

TAV

169 Let my cry come before you, Yhwh. Give

me understanding according to your word.

170 Let my supplication come before you.

Deliver me according to your word.

171 Let my lips utter praise, For you teach

me your statutes.

172 Let my tongue sing of your word, For

all your commandments are righteousness.

173 Let your hand be ready to help me, For

I have chosen your precepts.

174 I have longed for your salvation, Yhwh.

Your law is my delight.

175 Let my soul live, that I may praise

you. Let your ordinances help me.

176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep.

Seek your servant, for I don`t forget your

commandments.


These days, I notice that there is a
marketing ploy to hype 'whole grain'. It's
like they just invented grain or something.
It strikes me as disingenuous. As long as
I can remember, I've liked 'brown' bread.
That's what we called it before the sales
and marketing team got ahold of the idea.
What's really a scream is the whole grain
snacks, loaded with all the sugar you can
stand. That's eating healthy. Is there
any wonder that diabetes is epidemic? All
of our processed foods are just loaded with
sugar. But it's whole grain. It has to be
healthy.


Can you imagine a food product labeled
'whole truth'? Just suppose, in my fantasy
land of Utopia, that sales and marketing
was a branch of the Ministry of Truth. No,
not in the Orwellian sense, a genuine one.
Can you imagine? Makes me recall the John
Lenin song, and what a pervert he was.
It's not that I didn't listen to his music
in my younger days. It's that he had a
seriously distorted view of things, but
that seems to be the trend in modern art.
Art reflects society.


As I read over different comments posted on
blogs, I find that others have a sense that
current events are unique in some ways.
There seems to be a general
misunderstanding about the significance of
current events, and the trend of current
events. It almost seems as if there is an
effort on the part of the news media sector
to deliberately misrepresent facts, just
as if they are a sales and marketing branch
of some specific news agenda. To me, it's
all entertainment. I don't look to the
newspaper for truth and I don't look to
other media outlets for truth. They are
in the business of entertainment. What is
hard for me to grasp is how they expect
that their products are supposed to make
people feel better. It's like the junk
food business. If your customers get sick
from your products, how is that a good
thing? Or is it all about just the next
quarter's profits? There's a genuine
strangeness to it all. Here's what I
think:

Ecc 1:2 "Vanity of vanities," says the

Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is

vanity."

In other words, I don't think that human
nature has evolved much in about the past
3000 years or so. It seems that the writer
of Psalm 119:176 saw himself subject to the
same vice as is common to man. But he saw
the virtue in truth.


Verse 176 above, seems to suggest the same
sense of moral drift. 'I have gone astray
like a lost sheep.' The hebrew word
translated 'sheep' can also be translated
'lamb'. It implies a sense of total
helplessness. He has no hope of finding
his way through life's challenges on his
own. I can relate. Life is full of subtle
challenges, that seem to often hit you
blindsided. It's a way of letting you know
that you have overlooked a significant
detail. As the saying goes, the devil is
in the details. But the devil is not in
the business of truth.


The last segment of verse 176 goes,'Seek
your servant, for I don't forget your
commandments.' The writer has placed his
faith in the truthfulness of G-d's word.
He believes that his only hope is to be
rescued by Providence. He is expecting
that the truth he finds in scripture will
eventually lead him to salvation. That's
the goal, eternal salvation.


In the hebrew, the word here translated
'salvation' is the word 'Y@shuw`ah' .
That would be Jesus. Across the sandbars
and snags of hebrew and greek translations
what we find the Psalmist yearning for is
just a glimpse of hope in gaining eternal
salvation or deliverance. He was not sure
who would bring this gift from G-d, but he
saw it afar off, in the law and
commandments. He wanted to know Jesus.


Paul the Apostle put it this way:

Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who

shall DELIVER me from the body of this

death?

Jesus found Paul, just like the passage in
Psalm 119:176. The whole truth is, Jesus
finds us, we don't find him.