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Posted by Psalms on Monday, 29 October 2012
Psalms 119:70
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
119:70. Their heart is as fat as grease. Their hearts, through sensual indulgence, have grown coarse and groveling; but thou hast saved me from such a fate through thy chastening hand. The proud grow fat through carnal luxuries, and this makes them prouder still. The fat in such people is killing the life in them. Living on the fat of the land, their nature is subdued to that which they have fed upon; the muscle of their nature has gone to softness and grease.
But I delight in thy law. How much better is it to joy in the law of the Lord than to joy in sensual indulgences! This makes the heart healthy, and keeps the mind lowly. No one who loves holiness has the slightest cause to envy the prosperity of the worldling. Delight in the law elevates and ennobles, while carnal pleasure clogs the intellect and degrades the affections. David had his relishes and dainties, his festivals and delights, and all these he found in doing the will of the Lord his God. When law becomes delight, obedience is bliss. Holiness in the heart causes the soul to eat the fat of the land. To have the law for our delight will breed in our hearts the very opposite of the effects of pride; deadness, sensuality, and obstinacy will be cured, and we shall become teachable, sensitive, and spiritual.
The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
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