some wrong path on which we are about to set our feet and pointing and urging us in a different way—what J. B. Phillips calls ‘resetting direction’ (2 Tim. 3:16). By the mercy of his law, the Lord ‘resets’ us in the direction of light and life, or as Psalm 119:45 puts it most strikingly, ‘I will walk about4 in freedom, for [because!] I have sought out your precepts. ‘Precepts’ is the ‘narrowest’ word in the vocabulary of Psalm 119, covering every minute detail of applying the law of God to daily