Vs. 4 — You have commanded us To keep Your precepts diligently.

A.W. Pink:

We are improving in obedience when it becomes more extensive. Though the young convert has fully surrendered himself to the Lord, yet he devotes himself to some duties with more earnestness and diligence than he does to others, but as he becomes better acquainted with God’s will, more of his ways are regulated thereby. As spiritual light increases he discovers that God’s commandment is “exceeding broad” (119:96), forbidding not only the overt act but all that leads to it, and inculcating (by necessary implication) the opposite grace and virtue. Growth in grace appears when my obedience is more spiritual. One learning to write becomes more painstaking, so that he forms his letters with greater accuracy: so as one progresses in the school of Christ he pays more attention to that word “Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently” (119:4). So, too, superior aims and motives prompt him: his springs are less servile and more evangelical, his obedience proceeding from love and gratitude. That, in turn, produces another evidence of growth: obedience becomes easier and pleasanter, so that he “delights in the law of the Lord.” Duty is now a joy: “O how love I thy law.” (Pink, A. W. (2005). Spiritural growth growth in grace, or Christian progress. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.)

Prayer:

Father, You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently. Please add to my love for Your ways a fervency to keep your precepts with much diligence. Because You have given them to me in an act of loving grace, grant me strength by Thy Spirit to keep them. I cannot keep what I do not posses, so thank You for giving them to me and the grace to keep them as I grow in Christ Jesus. Please continue to reveal Your precepts and statutes to me, as with all the saints. Show us their perfections and greatness. Your precepts watch over us and keep us. All Your precepts are good for us. Amen!