“UNLESS thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine afflictions” | Psalm 119: 92

The psalmist’s life, for the most part, was a life of trials and afflictions.

He knew the grief of being pursued by enemies, betrayed and forsaken by friends, and worst of all, he bore the grief of his own sins and sinfulness in his conscience before God. He knew what he was! And to some degree every believer can identify with the psalmist in his trials and afflictions.

It is very instructive to note how the psalmist persevered through his trials and afflictions. If I may paraphrase the verse above, the psalmist is simply saying, ‘I could not have made it without the Word of God!’

The promises of his faithful God were his “delight” amidst his afflictions and sorrows. When all other comforts failed, he had the spiritual comfort of the words of his great and gracious God.

When he may have otherwise despaired, he was reassured and strengthened by the promises of his God.

When the heart of a believer stands in need of enlivening and reviving, nothing but the Word of God can uplift him.

Not all the gold and silver in the world, not even his Christian friends, but the Word of God alone can cheer and gladden the afflicted and sorrowful soul. No wonder the psalmist said, “O how I love thy law.” And, “How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” (Psalm 119: 97, 103)

How necessary, how precious, how essential is the Word of God to true believers. Those who can “make it” without the Word of God are still in the darkness of nature.

They can “make it” because they are not in the battle!

~ Pastor Maurice Montgomery

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