"For I find my delight in your commandments, which I love." Psalm 119:47
"In his Reflections on the Psalms, C. S. Lewis pondered how anyone could 'delight' in the law of the Lord. Respect, maybe. Assent, perhaps. But how could anyone find the law so exhilarating? And yet, the more he thought about it, the more Lewis came to understand how the psalmist's delight made sense. 'Their delight in the Law,' Lewis observed, 'is a delight in having touched firmness; like the pedestrian's delight in feeling the hard road beneath his feet after a false short cut has long entangled him in muddy fields.' The law is good because firmness is good. God cares enough to show us his ways and direct our paths. How awful it would be to inhabit this world, have some idea that there is a God, and yet not know what he desires from us. Divine statues are a gift to us. God gives us law because he loves us."
~ Kevin DeYoung, The Hole in Our Holiness, p. 50
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