Psalms 119:145. I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it must be intense and earnest. "I cried with my whole heart." And sometimes it should be accompanied with a resolve to profit by the affliction. "I will keep thy statutes." As the child under the rod prays to be spared because he hopes in future to be obedient, so does the Psalmist here say, "Hear me, O Lord; I will keep thy statutes." This ought to be the effect of every affliction, to make us more careful in our obedience. It is not always so, but so it ought always to be.
Psalms 119:145. I cried with my whole heart: hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.
In the time of trouble there is no resort like that of prayer, but it must be intense and earnest. "I cried with my whole heart." And sometimes it should be accompanied with a resolve to profit by the affliction. "I will keep thy statutes." As the child under the rod prays to be spared because he hopes in future to be obedient, so does the Psalmist here say, "Hear me, O Lord; I will keep thy statutes." This ought to be the effect of every affliction, to make us more careful in our obedience. It is not always so, but so it ought always to be.