Psalms 119:143. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:
Just now he said that he was despised, and now he says he is unhappy. Trouble without, and anguish within, seemed to grip him as in a vice.
Psalms 119:143. Yet thy commandments are my delights.
A man of the world cannot understand how a Christian can be in trouble and yet be full of delight; but it is true. We can be cast down, but not destroyed; we can be sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; we can be poor, yet make many rich. Here you have another holy paradox: "Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights," not only his delight, but his delights; as if he had a whole host of them, a great company of joys, and a chorus of holy mirth.
Psalms 119:143. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me:
Just now he said that he was despised, and now he says he is unhappy. Trouble without, and anguish within, seemed to grip him as in a vice.
Psalms 119:143. Yet thy commandments are my delights.
A man of the world cannot understand how a Christian can be in trouble and yet be full of delight; but it is true. We can be cast down, but not destroyed; we can be sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; we can be poor, yet make many rich. Here you have another holy paradox: "Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights," not only his delight, but his delights; as if he had a whole host of them, a great company of joys, and a chorus of holy mirth.