Psalms 119:16

Verse Psalms 119:16. I will delight myself] The word is very emphatical: אשתעשע eshtaasha, I will skip about and jump for joy.

14. He must exult in God's word as his treasure, live in the spirit of obedience as his work, and ever glory in God, who has called him to such a state of salvation.

15. He must never forget what God has done for him, done in him, and promised farther to do; and he must not forget the promises he had made, and the vows of the Lord that are upon him. Any young man who attends to these fifteen particulars will get his impure way cleansed; victory over his sin; and, if he abide faithful to the Lord that bought him, an eternal heaven at last among them that are sanctified.

ANALYSIS OF LETTER BETH. - Second Division

In the first part the psalmist, having commended God's law, from its Author - God, and its end - happiness, shows us in the second part the efficacy and utility of it to a holy life, without which there can be no happiness. And in order to show this effect, he chooses the most unlikely subject.

I. A young man, in whom the law of the members is most strong; he wants experience; he is headstrong, and generally under the government, not of reason nor religion, but of his own passions.

II. The psalmist shows that, to cleanse the way of such, he must "take heed to them," watch over them, and "remember his Creator in the days of his youth."

As a man must become holy in order to be happy, he shows how this holiness is to be attained, and adduces his own experience.

1. Seek God with thy "whole heart." Be truly sensible of your wants.

2. Keep and remember what God says: "Thy words have I hidden," c.

3. Reduce all this to practice: "That I might not sin against thee."

4. Bless God for what he has given: "Blessed art thou," c.

5. Ask more: "Teach me thy statutes."

6. Be ready to communicate his knowledge to others: "With my lips have I declared."

7. Let it have a due effect on thy own heart: "I have rejoiced," c.

8. Meditate frequently upon them: "I will meditate," c.

9. Deeply reflect on them: "I will have respect," c. As food undigested will not nourish the body, so the word of God not considered with deep meditation and reflection will not feed the soul.

10. Having pursued the above course, he should continue in it, and then his happiness would be secured: "I will not forget thy word. I will (in consequence) delight myself in thy statutes."