Psalm 119 - Tet (vs. 65-72)

"The law of your mouth is better to than thousands of gold and silver pieces."

Let's face it. We are in bad economic times and things are only getting worse. I was listening to a radio program just the other day, and the person being interviewed described a graph that was pretty frightening. Imagine a graph where there are two lines. The first line is the Gross Domestic Product of the U.S., and the second line is the total debt of all businesses and people in the U.S. Since the 40's even through the 90's, our total debt was no higher than 50% of our GDP. Our total national debt is now equal to our GDP. The last time we had such a peak in our economy was 1929 - the beginning of the Great Depression.

So much of our life has been built on borrowing and lending thousands upon thousands upon thousands of silver and gold pieces. We've strove for a quality of living that has only been supported by the acquisition of more gold and silver pieces. There are definite times when the law of God's mouth is much, much better to us than gold and silver, because that money tends to get us caught in a swirl of concern for only money. Yet, the law of God's mouth is essentially concerned with relationships between people and our relationship with God.