Your Commandments are My Delights....

141 I am small and despised,

Yet I do not forget Your precepts.

142 Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,

And Your law is truth.

143 Trouble and anguish have overtaken me,

Yet Your commandments are my delights.

144 The righteousness of Your testimonies is everlasting;

Give me understanding, and I shall live.—Psalm 119:141-144

For David the answer to every question and to every situation he faced was ALWAYS the word. What an example for us he was of abiding and clinging to His God no matter his feelings, no matter his circumstances.  David was a man after God’s own heart....one in whom God delighted. He was also, however, small and despised in the eyes of others probably because he WAS beloved of God.  Verse 143 implies that he was miserable as well. Trouble and anguish had taken hold of him, but the Psalmist not only does not forget the commandments of God (vs 141) but ups the ante in verse 143 by saying that they are his delight! 

For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ.—2 Corinthians 1:5

The righteousness of God’s  testimonies are everlasting and his word our righteous judge.  His word to us is truth and the Spirit of the law of life in Christ Jesus, brings our will into submission to our Creator’s and enables us to walk as His Spirit directs.

In verse 144 David prays for more grace and understanding to be given him The more time spent in the Word of God, the stronger our desire will be for it.  Beloved, if you desire a heart like David’s that delights in His precepts, you desire a good thing.  It is the word and only the word, that can do this work in your heart. Drink it in...immerse yourself in it.  For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, will shine in our hearts, to give us the light of the knowledge of His glory in the face of Jesus Christ.

Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, “but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”—John 4:13-14

And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.—John 17:3