Psalm 119:57-64

Psalm 119:57-64 
English Standard Version (ESV)

  Caleb has reached a phase in his life where he decides that if I do something he doesn't like, I have to pay him a million dollars.  Given my current level of indebtedness to him, I'm going to have to start using his 529 money to play the Powerball and hope I can win enough to pay him.  If we played by his rules, I'd be very, very poor.  Fortunately, we don't play by his rules.
  Everything depends on who makes the rules.  Humans have set up rules that don't always favor everyone equally.  Often, the rules are weighted in favor of keeping people in power who are currently in power.  Or maybe those who are the richest and most powerful benefit more from rules than the poorest and most downtrodden. 
  Here, we are reminded that God's grace isn't given out according to human rules, but by God's rules.  We receive grace according to God's promise -- this doesn't rely on us.  And we know that God always keeps his promises, and that grace and mercy is promised to all who believe, regardless of our past or our present.  Our futures are safe in God, because we are steadfastly loved.