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All-Consuming Zeal (Psa 119.139)

My zeal hath consumed me,
Because mine enemies have forgotten thy words (Psa 119.139).

A man who truly walks with God is subject to all kinds of emotional experiences, sometimes of a very intense degree. These feelings are not only compatible with true religion, but on account of it even raised to a high pitch, especially when he finds himself in particularly provocative circumstances. Such a man was David, and here he candidly declares his religious feelings and a reason for them. Any professing Christian without such feelings, or whose feelings along these lines barely register in his consciousness, has a symptom that something is seriously amiss in his soul.
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