Today, I am reading and commenting on  Psalms 120-135.

Today’s passage starts off with the psalmist asking God to save him from lying lips and deceitful tongues.  Now I realize the psalmist was talking about those around him who were dishonest, but when I first read:
“What will he do to you,
    and what more besides,
    you deceitful tongue?”
my thought was that I should pray to God that He keep me from having a deceitful tongue.  That thought did not come because I think of myself as dishonest, but because I want to never become someone whom others wonder if I am telling the truth.  As we read on, we read the psalmist telling us that our help comes from the Lord, the one who made all that is.  He will not let our foot slip.  If we seek His help, He will keep us from being deceitful, or from committing other sins.  He does not sleep, or even momentarily drift off.  Whatever plans we make, whatever effort we put into a project, if those plans do not further God’s plans, if that project is not part of what God is doing, all of our effort will come to nothing.  So, let us watch God closely to see what He wants us to do next.  Let us rejoice when we hear people say that they want to worship God.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.