All day long

And my tongue shall speak of Your righteousness And of Your praise all the day long. - Psalm 35v28

It is amazing what we get preoccupied with. It is amazing what we allow ourselves to become obsessed with. There is so much out there to distract us and if we are not careful those distractions become obsessions. We can get obsessed with sports teams, or video games, or the news, or Facebook, or Twitter, television, or books, or hobbies, or entertainment, or fitness, or any number of things. Everyone seems to have something that occupies a great deal of their time.

The psalmist here appears to have his own obsession. 'My tongue shall speak of your righteousness and of Your praise all day long.'

Notice that phrase – 'all day long.' I suspect that if someone today spoke of the Lord all day long people, even Christians, would think anyone who spoke of the Lord 'all day long' was just a little over the top.

It is interesting that someone can be a sports freak or a fitness nut or a gamer or a soap fan or whatever else and no one gives it a second thought. It is an interesting quirk, but that’s about it.

I remember way back to the 60s-70s when a subculture developed. Hippies and pacifists and greens and all kinds of young people were called Jesus Freaks. These folks associated themselves, sometimes loosely and sometimes deeply with Jesus Christ. The term started out as a pejorative, but was soon embraced by the Jesus Freaks themselves. They gave away tracts and New Testaments. I am sure that many of these folks were just trying something else in those days of wild experimentation. However, I am certain that many were truly saved in this movement.

It is interesting though that what was meant to be a criticism became a badge of pride. Jesus Freaks did not care that they were called Jesus Freaks, they embraced it.

I am not so sure, given the current climate, that I would want to be called a Jesus Freak, but if we were like the psalmist and spoke of the Lord all day long we would be sure to be criticised and made fun of and even Christians would wonder about us.

However, would that not be better than never even bringing up the name of our Saviour? I know that I can let days go by where I never bring up His name.

So they call us 'born agains' or some other term they consider to be an attack.

Is that really worse than them never even knowing we are believers?