Delight in God's Word

Throughout Psalm 119, David again and again expresses his love for God’s word.  He says that he longs to know it, he delights in it, he desires it above all riches.  Why this desire for God’s word?  1 Peter 2:2 compares the believers need for God’s word with a baby’s need for milk.  Does a baby have to learn to desire the milk that nourishes it?  A baby desires milk, not by instruction, but by instinct.  That desire is a part of its nature.  A true believer has been given a new nature that needs and desires the spiritual milk of God’s word in the same way.  If you are truly “born-again” this must be true of you.  You cannot be a Christian without a longing and desire for the Bible.