p. 62 | God's Law a Delight by A. W. C.

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 8, 1883

God's Law a Delight.

By A. W. C.

"THY law do I love." Ps. 119:113. How many professed Christians, down deep in the heart, can say as much? David seemed to take great delight in talking and thinking about God's holy law. It was his delight, his meditation day and night. He was loyal to God and his government, and, therefore, knew that the law with its momentous sanctions were so many pledges of his eternal good. An alien would feel very differently; feel that the law was not good to him; so an alien and a loyal citizen, in contemplating our arsenals and navies, the defense of freedom, would have very different feelings. The former says, "I do not like the looks of those large guns; I tremble at the thought of them." "No man has a good opinion of the law when he feels the halter draw." The loyal citizen, with different feelings, would say, "Oh how I love those grand old monuments. They are so many pledges of my country, that all my rights are secure." He would feel secure in proportion to the strength of his government. So the psalmist felt, and so may all God's children feel now, in contemplating his law. Though its penalty may seem exceeding severe, it only expresses the determination of God to maintain his government and secure the highest good of all his obedient subjects. "The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." "Thy commandments are exceeding broad." "His truth (law) is my shield and buckler." Surely, the psalmist did not think that the law of the Lord was liable to pass away.—A. W. C., in Sabbath Recorder.