I found the Psalm of today's liturgy to be quite meaningful, in vast and purposeful ways.
From Psalm 119 the following lines remind me that those with propensity to deceive themselves and thus attempt to deceive others, will eventually find their falsehoods gurgling to the surface. While truth always ends up being shown to such persons at final judgment, it behooves each of us to consider, absorb, and live the advice and wisdom of these lines from the following Psalm.
Though princes meet and talk against me,
Your servant mediates on your statutes.
Yes, Your decrees are my delight;
they are my counselors.
I declared my ways, and You answered me;
teach me Your statues.
Make me understand the way of Your precepts,
and I will meditate on your wondrous deeds.
Remove from me the way of falsehood,
and favor me with Your law.
The way of truth I have chosen;
I have set your ordinances before me.
--Psalm 119: 23-24, 26-27, 29-30
Years ago in my vocation as a consecrated Catholic hermit, I prayed about the rule of life that God desires of me. I knew immediately when reading a biography of a hermit of the Middle Ages, a holy, blessed man named Richard, that what he had determined to be the "perfect rule of life" is indeed what the Holy Spirit was showing me to be the perfect rule of life for my own hermit life and my life as a Christian religious solitary: The Gospel Rule.
All the more, the above Psalm inspires in me today and now tonight, again, the favor of His Law: God's Law of Love. I have chosen the way of truth, in that Jesus repeats and exhibits and instills in us to live in truth, beauty, and goodness. I have prayed to learn the meditations of Jesus' Heart, and to make them the meditations of Christ within me.
I'm so ever grateful for His Real Presence always through, with, and in me, each step of the way of life in the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Let us love God above all things, and let us love others as God loves. God bless His Real Presence in us, and love in His Love. Amen.
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