You have dealt well with Your servant, O LORD, according to Your word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge, For I believe Your commandments. Before I was afflicted I went astray, But now I keep Your word. You are good, and do good; Teach me Your statutes.
The proud have forged a lie against me, But I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart. Their heart is as fat as grease, But I delight in Your law.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, That I may learn Your statutes. The law of Your mouth is better to me Than thousands of coins of gold and silver.
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted,” It may be good, but it's also tough to swallow. It lines right up with advice to quit pounding my thumb with a rusty hammer because it will hurt. And a nice shinny new hammer has the same effect.
The lesson, ever so slowly soaks in. “Don't pound on your thumb with any hammer, rusty or shinny, large or small, etc.” Or, obey the word of the LORD in all things because this is pleasing unto the LORD. OBEDIENCE DOES NOT HURT.
Reading
Morning Psalm 118, Noon Psalm 119:89-96, Evening Psalm 58
