The Law of God is My Delight

Psalm 1

¹ Blessed is the man…..

² (whose) delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.

DELIGHT means something or someone that provides a source of happiness; "a joy to behold".

In the of the book of Psalm we can reap many benefits of delighting in the law of God.

Psalm 119:24, 105

²⁴ Your statutes are my delight;
they are my counselors.

¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.

Jewish and Muslim traditions posit that the Psalms are the work of David (seventy-three Psalms are with David's name), for which reason, it is known as the Song of David. He is known as The Man After God’s Heart. David did delight in the law of God, because the law of God is within his heart. He delights in the law, and the law is delighted in by him.

Romans 7:22

²²For in my inner being I delight in God's law;

By inner being, we understand that it is the hidden man of the heart, the “Christ is in you”. Hence, it is a spiritual delight or an abiding delight that we Christian must take in the law of God. His statutes must be in our hearts in order to be engaged in the obedience that the law requires. Putting His law into our hearts denotes that we truly love God for we are willing to know and obey His commandments.

William Burkitt said: “To delight in the law of God is to love for its purity and spiritually, because it makes holiness our duty; to take pleasure in the knowledge of the law, in meditating upon it, and in practicing every good duty contained in it, and enjoined by it.” - where this is lex in corde, there will be cor in lege.