Psalm 119 (156 of 190 notes)

144. The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting. First he had said that God’s testimonies were righteous, then that they were everlasting, and now that their righteousness is everlasting. Thus he gives us a larger and more detailed account of the Word of God the longer he is engaged in writing upon it. Long as the earth stands, long as there is a single intelligent creature in the universe, it will be confessed that God’s plans of mercy are in all respects marvelous proofs of his love of justice: even though he may be gracious Jehovah will not be unjust. Give me understanding, and I shall live. To live without understanding is not to live human life, but to be dead while we live. Only as we know and apprehend the things of God can we be said to enter into life. The more the Lord teaches us to admire the eternal righteousness of his Word, and the more he quickens us to the love of such rightness, the happier and the better we shall be. As we love life, and seek many days that we may see good, it behoves us to seek immortality in the everlasting Word, and to seek good in that renewal of our entire nature which begins with the enlightenment of the understanding and passes on to the regeneration of the entire person. Here is our need of the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, and the guide of all the quickened ones, who will lead us into all truth.