Here is David's experience of benefit by the word. 1. As a means of his
sanctification: "Thy word has quickened me. It made me alive when I was
dead in sin; it has many a time made me lively when I was dead in duty;
it has quickened me to that which is good when I was backward and
averse to it, and it has quickened me in that which is good when I was
cold and indifferent." 2. Therefore as a means of his consolation when
he was in affliction and needed something to support him: "Because thy
word has quickened me at other times, it has comforted me then." The
word of God has much in it that speaks comfort in affliction; but those
only may apply it to themselves who have experienced in some measure
the quickening power of the word. If through grace it make us holy,
there is enough in it to make us easy, in all conditions, under all
events.