| Geneva Study Bible MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation {a} all the day. (a) He shows that we cannot love God's word unless we exercise ourselves in it and practise it. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary MEM. (Ps 119:97-104). 97. This characteristic love for God's law (compare Ps 1:2) ensures increase. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 119:97-104 What we love, we love to think of. All true wisdom is from God. A good man carries his Bible with him, if not in his hands, yet in his head and in his heart. By meditation on God's testimonies we understand more than our teachers, when we understand our own hearts. The written word is a more sure guide to heaven, than all the fathers, the teachers, and ancients of the church. We cannot, with any comfort or boldness, attend God in holy duties, while under guilt, or in any by-way. It was Divine grace in his heart, that enabled the psalmist to receive these instructions. The soul has its tastes as well as the body. Our relish for the word of God will be greatest, when that for the world and the flesh is least. The way of sin is a wrong way; and the more understanding we get by the precepts of God, the more rooted will be our hatred of sin; and the more ready we are in the Scriptures, the better furnished we are with answers to temptation. | 
