Woman Rejoicing in the Word in a Gardenby CBPepper
119:162Psalms 119:162
I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
God's word is a source of joy, prized and rejoiced over like one who finds great spoil or hidden treasure. That joy belongs to a larger exaltation of God's law, in which His testimonies give delight and counsel. In that same setting His judgments guide a person's choices, and His commandments light the way.
The treasure-seeking joy it describes was shown after bitter war against the Bible had left very few copies and had hidden its truths. God did not suffer His word to be wholly destroyed but preserved it, and by His Spirit moved men in different countries of Europe to search for truth as for hidden treasure. He guided them providentially to the Holy Scriptures, gave them intense interest in studying the sacred pages and willingness to accept the light at any cost, and enabled them even without seeing all things clearly to perceive many long-buried truths. He then sent them forth as messengers from heaven to break apart the chains of error and superstition and to call those long enslaved to arise and assert liberty as the midnight of darkness wore away toward dawn.
Together with Psalm 119:126-127 it declares that worldly wickedness has reached the point where the Lord will certainly interfere and arise to punish bold and defiant wickedness against His holy law. It sets that certainty against very great forbearance toward continual insult to His holy commandments.
God's word is a source of joy, prized and rejoiced over like one who finds great spoil or hidden treasure. That joy belongs to a larger exaltation of God's law, in which His testimonies give delight and counsel. In that same setting His judgments guide a person's choices, and His commandments light the way.
The treasure-seeking joy it describes was shown after bitter war against the Bible had left very few copies and had hidden its truths. God did not suffer His word to be wholly destroyed but preserved it, and by His Spirit moved men in different countries of Europe to search for truth as for hidden treasure. He guided them providentially to the Holy Scriptures, gave them intense interest in studying the sacred pages and willingness to accept the light at any cost, and enabled them even without seeing all things clearly to perceive many long-buried truths. He then sent them forth as messengers from heaven to break apart the chains of error and superstition and to call those long enslaved to arise and assert liberty as the midnight of darkness wore away toward dawn.
Together with Psalm 119:126-127 it declares that worldly wickedness has reached the point where the Lord will certainly interfere and arise to punish bold and defiant wickedness against His holy law. It sets that certainty against very great forbearance toward continual insult to His holy commandments.