more of psalm 119

I delight in your commands because I love them (v.47)
You delight in what you love... you spend time with what you love... you allow yourself to be shaped by what you love.
God, I hope to fall in love with the scriptures until (and beyond as well) I feel complete delight in spending time in them.

This has been my practice: I obey your precepts (v.56)
This comes at the end of 8 stanzas that reveal the author's struggles and circumstances in life. At everyone of them he finds an anchor and a hope in the scriptures.
The last verse seems to define why this is true for him: he's made it his practice to live out the scriptures. He's made a choice in the past, but it seems to keep getting renewed periodically, that he will obey-live the scriptures. When a life circumstance comes, he's anchored and finds hope in turning to what he's practiced daily for years.
Eugene Peterson translates it this way: STILL, I walk through the rain of deirision because I live by your word and counsel. (The Message)
I hope to practice this: read, absorb, live

There's great stuff in this Psalm that is altering my affection for the scriptures.