a bit from Psalm 119; SD 3144 on use; SD 3168 on equilibriums or balances

Psalm 119:149-152 (NIV)

Hear my voice in accordance with Your love;
preserve my life, O Lord, according to Your laws.
Those who devise wicked schemes are near,
but they are far from Your law.
Yet you are near, O Lord,
and all Your commands are true.
Long ago I learned from Your statutes
that You established them to last forever.


SD 3144
. . . for the law is that nothing is ever without a use.

SD 3168
. . . all things in the universal body are held in equilibrium:
it is so in the atmospheric world,
and in each and all the things of nature.
It was further shown that in equilibrium,
the slightest and least force moves,
and causes that even what appears very strong and resistant to be moved.
Thus it is in the world of spirits and in heaven,
where there are equilibriums of all things:
and thus each and all things are ruled by the Lord very easily,
and with no trouble:
wherefore equilibriums are preserved:
and for this reason souls must through sufferings
divest themselves of whatever is not in equilibrium.
(September 15, 1748)