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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 29 October 2012
Psalms 119:68
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
119:68. Thou art good, and doest good. Even in affliction God is good, and does good. This is the confession of experience. God is essential goodness in himself, and in every attribute of his nature he is good in the fullest sense of the term. His acts are according to his nature. God is not latent and inactive goodness; he is actively beneficent. It is well to worship the Lord as the psalmist here does by describing him. Facts about God are the best praise of God. All the glory we can give to God is to reflect his own glory upon himself. We believe in his goodness, and so honor him by our faith; we admire that goodness, and so glorify him by our love; we declare that goodness, and so magnify him by our testimony.
Teach me thy statutes. The man of God delighted to learn; he ascribed this to the goodness of the Lord, and hoped that for the same reason he would be allowed to remain in the school and learn on till he could perfectly practice every lesson. He knew the sad result of breaking those statutes, and by a painful experience he had been led back to the way of righteousness; and therefore he begged that he might be taught a perfect knowledge of the law, and a complete conformity to it.
In verse 12, which is the fourth verse of the second section, we have much the same sense as in this fourth verse.
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