Your servant meditates on your statutes. . . I have hoped in your ordinances. . . My hands also will I lift up to your commandments which I love. . As far as I know there is no department of the Congress charged with developing a civil code hymnbook with meter and keys.
Music is about passion, about the spirit.
And yet the Psalmist seems to see it quite differently. We think because the Law can't provide redemption, that it is worthless or replaced, or only for OLD Testament times, or worse, for Pharisees. Because we can't be justified by the LAW, we too easily have shelved it, or worse, abandoned it. It's as old a theme as the Garden of Eden. It's as modern as every child's self-indulgent demands to have their own way.