Psalm 119:75 | “I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me.”

The psalmist knows that God’s rules are righteous. God is holy. He is perfect. Everything he does is right. That includes the affliction God brought into his life. In remarkable faith, the psalmist acknowledges that even the hardship he endured was right. Although it came through the hands of the ungodly, he trusts that behind every sorrow stands the faithful hand of a good God. Matthew Henry writes, “However God is pleased to afflict us, he does us no wrong, nor can we charge him with any iniquity, but must acknowledge that it is less than we have deserved.” Spurgeon adds, “Our heavenly Father is no Eli. He will not suffer his children to sin without rebuke, his love is too intense for that. The man who makes the confession of this verse is already progressing in the school of grace and is learning the commandments.” May we learn to trust God’s wisdom in our trials and bow before his faithful love even when the path is painful.