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Psalms 3: Obsession with Torah (Psalm 1:2)

The one who doesn’t walk, stand or sit with scoffers delights in the law of YHWH.  This non-scoffer meditates day and night on Torah.  Day and night?  24/7 thinking about Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy?  It’s easy to imagine being pre-occupied with many things (sports, films, possessions, people), but being obsessed with the Law?

What could possibly cause someone to become so focused on something like Law?

Why does someone become obsessed with an object?  It gives them great delight, or even pleasure.  For some, sex, others money, others competition.  For the psalmist, Torah.  Nice.  An obsession with Law.  I’m still working on that.

How does Torah provide pleasure for you?  Why do you think the psalmist meditates on it day and night? 

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