Precious words! They set before us, most blessedly, the secret spring of that life which we, as Christians, are called to live from day to day--the life of simple, implicit, and unqualified obedience, namely, a heart fearing the Lord--fearing Him, not in a servile spirit, but with all that deep, true, adoring love which the Holy Ghost sheds abroad in our hearts. It is this that delights the heart of our loving Father. His word to us is, "My son, give Me thine heart." Where the heart is given, all follows, in lovely moral order. A loving heart finds its very deepest joy in obeying all God's commandments; and nothing is of any value to God but what springs from a loving heart. The heart is the source of all the issues of life; and hence, when it is governed by the love of God, there is a loving response to all His commandments. We love His commandments because we love Him. Every word of His is precious to the heart that loves Him. Every precept, every statute, every judgment--in a word, His whole law is loved, reverenced, and obeyed, because it has His name and His authority attached to it. The reader will find in psalm cxix. an uncommonly fine illustration of the special point now before us--a most striking example of one who blessedly answered to the words quoted above--"O that there were _such a heart_ in them, that they would fear Me, and keep _all_ My commandments _always_!" It is the lovely breathing of a soul who found its deep, unfailing, constant delight in the law of God. There are no less than one hundred and seventy allusions to that precious law, under some one title or another. We find scattered along the surface of this marvelous psalm, in rich profusion, such gems as the following:--