Hidden in the long lines of Psalm 119 is a short sentence that reshapes how we hear God’s Word: “Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage” (Psalm 119:54). The psalmist does not speak of obligation or endurance. He speaks of joy. God’s statutes, the very commands many resist, had become …

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