Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is
where my happiness is found.
-- Psalm 119:35
…for that is where my happiness is found.
Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment comes from doing the
will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.
--John 4:34
O, would that the sustenance of my soul were to do the will
of the Father. Rather, I wish this truth
to be ever present upon my conscience.
Indeed, the word of the Lord does satisfy, as water in a dry, weary
land. True, also, that I hide that word
in my heart so as to continually appropriate my acceptability before God. Yet, I find myself along other paths—though
all my heart groans for rightness. I
need not search for alternative places of respite from the evil within and
without. That Way is the one of my
inclination; I would be well pleased should I traverse its ground. As arithmetic brings self-evident truths, so
here, my happiness is most assuredly found along the path of your commands. I would find myself fulfilled even as the
Lord is fulfilled: completely, totally, certainly, utterly, eternally,
sufficiently.
