The emphasis in this, the longest psalm, is on the vital ministry of the Word of God in the inner spiritual life of God's children. It describes how the Word enables us to grow in holiness and handle the persecutions and pressures that always accompany an obedient walk of faith. The Psalm is an acrostic (which most likely was an aid in memorization – oral society with eight lines in each section, and the successive sections follow the letters of the Hebrew alphabet...