Psalm 119:77 | “Let your mercy come to me, that I may live, for your law is my delight.”

The psalmist cries out for deliverance, anchoring his hope in what he knows of God’s character. God is compassionate. The word “mercy” here is plural, mercies. God’s people do not live on a single act of kindness but on a continual stream of mercy that sustains them day after day. The psalmist understands that apart from this steady flow of compassion he cannot live. Our confidence as believers rests on this same mercy. Spurgeon wrote, “No true child of God can live without the tender mercy of the Lord; it is death to him to be under God’s displeasure.” Even in distress the psalmist delights in the law of the Lord. He longs for relief, not for comfort’s sake, but so he may continue to walk in faithful obedience. May we seek God’s mercies with humble earnestness and find our life in the compassion of the Lord and in his word.