Contemplative Bible Reading

Psalm 89:14 (New Living Translation)

14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Unfailing love and truth walk before you as attendants.

There are many things about God recorded in the Bible. We learn that God has limitless strength. God has limitless knowledge. God is everywhere at once for all time. And on and on. Amazing power in all ways that my little mind can imagine.

What is the foundation of God? Strength? Power? Computing capacity? Nope. Do what is right. Be just to everyone.

There must be some misunderstanding in translation (the usual excuse for things that don’t make sense to me). But here it is in black and white as plain as it can be. The foundation of all this is doing what is right and being just to everyone.

Perhaps we could learn from God. (Perhaps? Who is kidding? Of course.) Perhaps we could focus on doing what is right, i.e., being good. Perhaps we could be just to everyone regardless of every pathetic excuse we find to do otherwise.

I guess that’s the end statement of most of this. Righteous and justice. Surely we can do these two simple things. Please God, help me to be righteous and just.