Vs. 20 — My soul breaks with longing for Your judgments at all times.

Comments from John Morison (1829):

How few are there even among the servants of God who know anything of the intense feeling of devotion here expressed! O that our cold and stubborn hearts were warmed and subdued by divine grace, that we might be ready to faint by reason of the longing which he had “at all times” for the judgments of our God. How fitful are our best feelings! If to-day we ascend the mount of communion with God, to-morrow we are in danger of being again entangled with the things of earth. How happy are they whose hearts are “at all times” filled with longings after fellowship with the great and glorious object of their love!

Prayer:

Lord, fill me with a continual overwhelming desire for Your judgments. Make my heart to long after You and Your ways, Your statutes, and Your righteousness. When my mind strays to seek contentment and satisfaction away from You, please stop me and quicken me to the truth. I don’t want to be content with my present state, that is, my current walk with and knowledge of Jesus Christ. I want to know Him in His sufferings, death, and resurrection and I want the desire to pound in my chest and keep my thoughts always aware of You and Your judgments. Pour such a longing upon us, the Church, that we may long for and live everyday, even every hour by the kingdom of Christ. Yes, Your kingdom come; Your will be done, on earth, in our lives, and in our family’s lives, as it is in heaven. Jesus, be exalted as the Lamb of God in my heart and life!