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Psalm 1:2
“You thrill to GOD’S Word, you chew on Scripture day and night.”
For the psalmist, and indeed for all the ancient Hebrew people, “Law, ” Torah in Hebrew, was not merely 613 “commandments” that must be obeyed, but the entire story of creation, fall, promise, enslavement in Egypt, redemption and exodus. This whole story flows from the central promise God made to Abraham that through him all nations would be redeemed.
No wonder the psalmist is so thrilled by reading and meditating on God’s Word. Shouldn’t we all the more so delight in the Word, we who know Jesus Christ?
Bible scholar N.T. Wright writes”
“ Scripture forms a massive and powerful story whose climax is the coming into the world of the unique Son of the true Creator God, and above all, his death for sins and bodily resurrection from the dead.” (N.T. Wright, Justification , p250)
It is this Good News that frames the narrative for me and keeps me coming back for more of God’s Word and hearing new insights from old precepts given to those desert people so long ago.
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