Psalm 119:71 It is good for me that I was humbled,
so that I might learn your statutes.
The psalmist is on the other side of a bad experience. This bad experience presumably reminded him that he couldn't go through life all on his own and that he didn't have all the answers. This was presumably one of those biblical bad experiences that drove the psalmist back to a dependence on God and on God's teaching (what he calls statutes). Looking back through this experience to the blessings that have come to him on the other side, he says "It is good for me that I was humbled, so that I might learn your statutes."
Easy for him to say.
Easy for me to say. It's easy enough to say from a place of blessing and a place of looking backward through hard times to see the blessings that have come through it. The silver lining is easiest to see when you've gone through the cloud, not when you're in the middle of it. In the middle of the cloud, we don't say "It is good for me to be here." What we do is trust. We trust that God will always be God and that God is good all the time. And we hold on.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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