The Blessedness of obeying the Word

ALEPH    

1Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord! 2Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart! 3They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways. 4You have commanded us To keep Your precepts diligently. 5Oh, that my ways were directed To keep Your statutes! 6Then I would not be ashamed, When I look into all Your commandments. 7I will praise You with uprightness of heart, When I learn Your righteous judgments. 8I will keep Your statutes; Oh, do not forsake me utterly!                          Psalm 119:1-8   NKJV

This Psalm has been called the golden alphabet of the bible. The reason is that it is divided into 22 sections, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Each section has 8 verses and every verse in a section begins with the corresponding Hebrews letter; thus in the Hebrew every verse in the first section begins with ALEPH, in the second section BETH and so on. Apparently, the author felt this was a convenient way of studying God's Word properly. I will endeavour to go through the whole Psalm, which will cover roughly around 22 days. The titles for each section are based primarily on FW Grant's notes.

As we are committed to the Lord and, live a sin free life to the best of our ability, we are classed by the Lord as undefiled in the way we live and, we are blessed. As we keep His Word and seek Him with all that we have (wholeheartedness), we can be sure that He is pleased with us. The blessed or happy person is the one whose life is conformed to the Word of God. Even if we sin - which we know that we will do - He has given us provision in His Word to be able to confess this sin to Him and, we are kept in this wonderful state of being undefiled.

God knows us through and through; He knows that some days it can be impossible to remain sinless. We are easily led to distraction if we are not careful and when we are, we feel awful because we have let God down. However, He sees us through the eyes of faith; He sees the finished product and as we say we are sorry, He sees no wrong in us, so much so, He refuses to remember our past. If we have confessed to Him, He is 100% faithful and just and totally forgives us (1John 1:9). 

Therefore, we need to live wholeheartedly for Him, which I know is difficult to do, but if we ask Him He is only too pleased to help us to accomplish this. We probably will not be perfect until we are standing before Him. To Him we are already, but our flesh won't allow us to believe and live this way. So ask Him to help you to live sold out for Jesus.

If you don't know Jesus or, have fallen away, why not say this prayer right now

Lord Jesus, I have sinned. I ask you to forgive me and be my Lord and Saviour. Please come into my heart, fill me with Your Spirit and give me a brand new start today. In Jesus' Name. Amen
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