Joyful Are Those Who Obey His Laws And Search For Him With All Their Hearts
Live Pure Lives & Grow In Faith
PSALM 119:1-2
“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!
”Psalms 119:1-2 NKJV
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Psalm 119 is both the longest psalm and the longest chapter in the bible.
Possibly written by Ezra after the Temple was rebuilt (EZRA 6:14-15) as a repetitive meditation on the power and beauty of God’s word, and how it helps us to live pure lives and grow in faith.
Such repetition was common in the Hebrew culture because people did not have personal copies of the Scriptures to read like us today, so they memorised God’s word and passed it on verbally.
The structure of this psalm made it less difficult to remember.
There are in this lengthy psalm, twenty two carefully constructed sections; each section containing eight verses, all beginning with the letter of its section from the Hebrew alphabet.
Within the psalm, eight words for God’s law occur again and again: law, testimonies, promise, precepts, statutes, commandments, judgements, and word. These words help us to elaborate the application of God’s Law in our everyday life and to the destiny of Israel.
The Hebrew word torah, translated as “law,” means “instruction” or “direction.” The Law was not designed as a means of salvation, rather it was a means for the Israelites to learn how to live as God’s holy people.
The psalmist continually describes the Law as a great blessing, for it was God’s gracious revelation to His people for their own good (DEUTERONOMY 6:1-3).
The Law mercifully points out the right paths to follow. God’s word is the only sure guide for us to follow to live pure and holy lives pleasing to God.
Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
Who seek Him with the whole heart!
Having said that, the Law cannot save us because we have all sinned.
“This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
I John 1:5-7 NKJV
We cannot walk the right path in our own strength, for our flesh lives only to satisfy its lust.
But Jesus said, ““If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”
John 14:15-18 NKJV
He sent His Holy Spirit to lead those who love Him and choose to obey His commandments.
By their choice they no longer live to satisfy their lust, but rather, become a vessel of the holy Spirit Who gives both the desire to do that what pleases Him, and empowers them to do it (PHILIPPIANS 2:13).
But He does not take a way one’s free will, we must choose to live according to the Spirit and not by the passions of our flesh.
It’s not easy because the flesh is not quick to give up its dominion and a battle begins within.
“I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Galatians 5:16-26 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
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