Blessing and Blindness

My favorite of the Psalms is 139, such revelatory words as, "You knit me together in my mother's womb" reflecting human creation, sperm uniting with egg, and well before science had fully disclosed the critical differentiation of cells necessary to form a child!

As well, the beauty and blessings strung throughout these 24 verses, words now well proven throughout my years.

Even in my failures "darkness cannot hide me...your hand is upon me...hemming me in...when I awake, I am still with you."

But then the Psalmist also reveals our blindness to the true heart of God, in the last few verses boasting of hatred: "Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord...."

Centuries later, his distant cousin, the true Word would be fully manifest, the One whom John declares was with God and was God.

Only then would we hear the full heart of our Lord.

The psalmist had captured only half the heart of God as declared by the Christ:

"Love the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind."

The second had been lost to our prideful ego, as the Psalmist seems blind to the requirement that one not only love the Lord, and one's neighbor, but his enemies as well, "those who despitefully use you!"

Here we see the stretch that the New Covenant required and yet grace would fully afford!

Blessings are easily received, but loving those who depise us is the true test of Godliness.