Meditations From The Psalms, Part 17

"Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights." - Psalm 119:143

What are behind such words and why the contrast between trouble and delight In God's commands? How can we delight during times of trouble? Such paradoxes are planted throughout the landscape of Scripture. This in fact is the strangeness of our pilgrimage. How can one die to live, give to get, be cut down but not be destroyed, be humbled to be exalted, or watch the outer man perish while the inward man is being renewed? These are truly enigmas which cannot be explained but can be experienced. I trust you are experiencing them. These are Holy Pleasures. That's the way I see things.