Psalm 119:136 | “My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law.”

The psalmist weeps. His tears are not driven by personal loss, but by grief over those who refuse to keep God’s law. For those who love God’s word, obedience is not burdensome. They obey it. They hope in it. They are transformed by it. Because they love God’s law, to see it despised by the world brings real sorrow. This grief is both Godward and manward. The psalmist mourns because God is dishonored and because sinners are rushing toward judgment. Spurgeon explains it this way: “He wept in sympathy with God to see the holy law despised and broken. He wept in pity for men who were thus drawing down upon themselves the fiery wrath of God.” The rejection of truth is not neutral. It has an end, and that end is terrifying. Matthew Henry captures the posture of the faithful heart with sobering clarity: “The sins of sinners are the sorrows of saints. We must mourn for that which we cannot mend.” The closer we walk with the Lord, the more deeply we feel as he feels. A hard heart can mock sin or ignore it. A soft heart weeps. When was the last time you wept over the disobedience of the wicked?