...in the Law you find the 'real' or 'correct' or stable, well-grounded, directions for living. The law answers the question 'Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way?' (119,9) It is like a lamp, a guide, (105). there are many rival directions for living, as the Pagan cultures all round us show. When the poets call the directions 'rulings' of Jahweh 'true' they are expressing the assurance thata these, and not those others, are the 'real' or 'valid' or unassailable ones; that they are based on the very nature of things and the very nature of God...the Lord (not merely obedience to the Lord) is righteous and commands righteousness because He loves it. He enjoins good because it is good, because He is good. Hence his laws have 'emeth' truth, intrinsic validity, rock-bottom reality, being rooted in His own nature, and are therefore as solid as that Nature which He has created.
Their delight in the Law is delight in having touched firmness; like the pedestrian's delight in feeling the hard road beneath his feet after a false short cut has long entangled him in muddy fields."
C.S. Lewis
