Charles Spurgeon, writing in his The Treasury of David, comments on the second half of Psalm 119, verse 154: quicken me according to your word.
Quicken me. We had this prayer in the last
section, and we shall have it again and again in this. It is a desire which
cannot be too often felt and expressed. As the soul is the centre of
everything, so to be quickened is the central blessing. It means more love,
more grace, more faith, more courage, more strength, and if we get these we can
hold up our heads before our adversaries. God alone can give this quickening;
but to the Lord and giver of life the work is easy enough, and he delights to
perform it.
According to thy
word. David had found such a blessing
among the promised things, or at least he perceived that it was according to
the general tenor of God's word that tried believers should be quickened and
brought up again from the dust of the earth; therefore he pleads the word, and
desires the Lord to act to him according to the usual run of that word. What a
mighty plea is this— "according to thy word." No gun in all our
arsenals can match it.
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