Rivers of Waters Run Down Mine Eyes

Thanks to Al Parr, working with the Saline Church of Christ, for the content of this post.

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Psalm 119:136 KJV – “Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.”

Psalm 119 is about the Bible: the origin, nature and authority of it, and the attitude toward it – of believers, of unbelievers and of God Himself. When the penman looked at the people of the world, he was “grieved, because they kept not thy word” (Psalm 119:158 KJV).

When you and I consider the lost condition of the multitudes among whom we live, our reaction can take one of three courses. We can:

[1] ignore the situation as something we cannot change

[2] judge them guilty of ignoring their Maker and His love

[3] fear for their souls, and try to teach them eternal truth

Probably most of us take the first course. Sadly, some take the second. Our God-inspired example is to feel the “rivers of waters” and the third course.

The apostle Paul had “great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh” (Romans 9:1-3 KJV). When he thought of those who had set themselves as enemies of Christ and opponents of the gospel, he wept (Philippians 3:18).

What makes you weep and moves you to rivers of waters? Personal injury and loss? The suffering of a loved one? These things should bring upon us throes of compassion, but the Christian’s love should be broader than to include only those of his own company.

“For God so loved that He gave…” (John 3:16 KJV)  “For the love of Christ constraineth us…” (2 Corinthians 5:14 KJV)  How will the lost be saved if the saved don’t care?

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Al Parr works Confirming the Churches and preaches at the Saline Church of Christ
7300 East Michigan Avenue
Saline, MI 48176

734-429-4319