Saturday, December 2, 2017

Blessed are they whose ways are blameless

Psalm 119:1-16
Blessed are they whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord. Blessed are they who keep his statutes and seek him with all their heart.
How can a young man keep his way pure?
By living according to your word. I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you. Meditate in following your statutes as one rejoices in great riches. And meditate on your precepts and consider your ways.
This is the longest psalm of all - and the most form; and elaborate in concept. There are 22 eight-verse sections. Each section begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet, and each verse within the section begins with the same letter.
Within this stylized pattern the psalmist makes a series of individual, though not isolated or disconnected, statements about the 'law' and the individual - interspersed with frequent prayers. He uses ten different words to describe it: God's la, his testimonies, precepts, statutes, commandments, ordinances, word, way, promises and judgments. And one or other of these descriptions occurs in all but a very few verses. He seems to have taken the same delight in the discipline set by this complex poetic form, as he did in the study of the law itself. True freedom is found through constraint, in both cases.
Why?
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, like Daniel, not one can found his fault in his way.
Blessed are those who keep his statutes and seek God with all their heart.
Mediate God's way and his word and his way is the best way to keep our way pure.
How?
Living according to God's word and meditate God's word and what God has done to me!


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