Psalm 119 – Teth

After talking about the comfort and protection that God’s Word brings, the psalmist explores how God delivered him from being afflicted – he mentions how he was afflicted before he went astray (v. 67) but that by obeying God he realized God’s goodness. He realizes it was good to be afflicted (v. 71) because it helped him to learn God’s decrees. Without God’s Word we often can feel the weight of problems and feel afflicted – like somehow God is causing us to have hardships.  But turning to God’s Word shows us the goodness of God, that he is looking