This chapter is probably one of my favorite chapters in the bible. “Blessed are those, whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!” Psalm 119:1. This chapter is so foundational because the author who wrote it was consumed by God’s word to where he goes from not only rejoicing but trembling at the word of God. “Blessed are those whose way is blameless,” we all are called to walk this out, lives that are blameless before God, not only doing it as a duty with the name of Christianity tacked onto us, but out of a lovesick heart desiring to please the one who first loved us.
So many times as Christians we walk around with people never even knowing that we are saved. Aren’t we called to be the salt and light of the world (Matthew 5:13-16), to make the name of Christ known? Psalm 119:1 says that we are to walk in the law of the Lord, implying a action on our part, not only are we to have His word written on our heart but we are called to walk it out by our actions and reactions. I have been heavily convicted by this lately at the fact that I have put Christianity in this wattled up box saying that if I pray, fast and do good, I would be considered good in the eyes of the Lord. I had a dream the other day and in it I woke up in my dream, I was in my room and laying in bed and a bright cloud formation was in front of me and from it came a voice, “You do not fear me but you fear man.” As quick as the dream started it ended, I woke up and at first I couldn’t remember it, then suddenly the conviction of the Lord came upon me. I came to the realization that the fear of man controlled my every being within me. It is where lies originate, we lie to make ourselves look better to men, also because we fear the reaction of man, but yet we forget the eternal punishment of sin. Yes God is a God of love and kindness but He hates sin with a unceasing zeal. Its who he is and always will be. We need to look upon His law and upon His word and have it written upon our hearts, this is the prayer of the author of Psalm 119, that the word of the Lord could be written upon his heart. Unless we get this how then can we protect ourselves from pride arising, its not by the looks of the church that get us to heaven but the acceptance of the Father in Heaven.
