Psalms 119:57

Psalms 119:57 says, CHETH.  We have the identifier, then verse fifty-seven says, Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.  David said that God was his portion.  I believe all this means all that he needed.  God should be all that we need today, and we should be satisfied with whatever He provides for us.  David also said that he would keep God's word, and so must we as Christians.  Verse fifty-eight adds, I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. David said he wholeheartedly asked for God's favor and that God be merciful to him according to His word.  If we seek God's favor today, we must do so by wholeheartedly putting our faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord.  Then, God will be merciful to us according to His word.  Verse fifty-nine states, I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.  I believe this means that David considered the way he was living and made a deliberate choice to follow God and keep His laws.  We must consider our ways and realize that we need to turn away from our own ideas and deliberately turn to God and follow His laws by first putting our faith in Jesus Christ.  Verse sixty adds, I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.  Like David, we must keep God's commandments quickly, and not wait until everything seems to be going wrong to do so.  Verse sixty-one says, The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.  Even if the wicked, those who do not believe in God, take everything from us, we cannot forget God's law.  David said that the wicked had robbed him, not that God had prevented it from happening.  Verse sixty-two adds, At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.  David said he would give thanks to God at midnight because of God's righteous judgments.  I will not say that we should wake up at midnight to praise God, but I will say that if we are awake at midnight that we should praise God.  Verse sixty-three declares, I am a companion of all them that fear thee, and of them that keep thy precepts.  David may have been king, but he considered himself to simply be a companion to his fellow believers.  No matter how rich or poor we are in life, we are all just fellow companions, brothers and sisters in faith as followers of Christ.  Verse sixty-four adds, The earth, O LORD, is full of thy mercy: teach me thy statutes.  The earth is still full of God's mercy and we still need Him to teach us His ways.