For You Shall Enlarge My Heart…

 GIMEL

Deal bountifully with Your servant,

That I may live and keep Your word.

18 Open my eyes, that I may see

Wondrous things from Your law.

19 I am a stranger in the earth;

Do not hide Your commandments from me.

20 My soul breaks with longing

For Your judgments at all times.

21 You rebuke the proud--the cursed,

Who stray from Your commandments.

22 Remove from me reproach and contempt,

For I have kept Your testimonies.

23 Princes also sit and speak against me,

But Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

24 Your testimonies also are my delight

And my counselors.

25 DALETH

My soul clings to the dust;

Revive me according to Your word.

26 I have declared my ways, and You answered me;

Teach me Your statutes.

27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts;

So shall I meditate on Your wonderful works.

28 My soul melts from heaviness;

Strengthen me according to Your word.

29 Remove from me the way of lying,

And grant me Your law graciously.

30 I have chosen the way of truth;

Your judgments I have laid before me.

31 I cling to Your testimonies;

O LORD, do not put me to shame!

32 I will run the course of Your commandments,

For You shall enlarge my heart.—Ps 119:17-32

Are you getting the picture here that God’s word to David was the only weapon in his arsenal and the answer or remedy for whatever he faced?  David’s prayer is to God alone...it is both direct and personal.  He makes it clear from the first verse (17) that without God’s mercy and grace toward him he could not live, no less serve Him and keep His word.  It was God who opened David’s eyes to see the wondrous things contained in His word.  Because David understood this, his soul broke with longing for it   The keeping of His word was both the objective and the joy of the psalmist’s life. It was his meditation through every circumstance he faced.  David was desperate for God’s truth, and his desire for it wasn’t for show.  David truly understood  that without God he was a dead man walking and his future without hope.  The Lord’s testimonies were his delight and his counselors.  When he was bowed down, it was His word that revived him.  When his soul was melting from heaviness, it was His word to him which strengthened him.  David’s heart purposed to walk always in the truth of His God. He clung to His testimonies and trusted that God would use His word to energize his heart and enlarge it...literally...and I love this...set it free to obey His commandments.