Are You Blessed? (Part 2 of 3)

God's Word is the key that unlocks the door to God's blessing.

August 30, 2020

"ALEPH.  Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.  Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart."

Psalm 119:1-2

Part 2

Yesterday:
“Blessed are the undefiled in the way.”
It is the pure and undefiled life that God blesses.  Those who are blessed are following the way of God.  This life may seem impossible to achieve.  God’s Word instructs us on how to live it.

Today:
“Who walk in the law of the LORD.”
This happy, blessed person is “walking in the law of the LORD.”  A “walk” assumes progress, the goal has not been reached yet.  A walk is a series of independent steps progressing us to our desired goal.  We keep walking “in the law of the LORD.”

Believers are walking with the LORD.

“In them is found habitual holiness.  Their walk, their common everyday life is obedience unto the Lord.  They live by rule, that rule the command of the Lord God.  Whether they eat or drink, or whatsoever they do, they do all in the name of their great Master and Exemplar.”[1]

Walking this “holy life” is not perfection, but a work in progress.

“The holy life is a walk, a steady progress, a quiet advance, a lasting continuance.  Enoch walked with God.  Good men always long to be better, and hence they go forward.  Good men are never idle, and hence they do not lie down or loiter, but they are still walking onward to their desired end”[2] (Spurgeon).

Believers do not let this world sidetrack you in your progress.  The hymn writer understood our tendency so well when he wrote, “The world is ever near; I see the sights that dazzle, the tempting sounds I hear; My foes are ever near me, around me and within…”[3]  The only way to overcome is to keep on “growing in grace and in the admonition of the Lord” (2 Peter 3:18).

Come back tomorrow, and we will think more about God’s path to happiness.

 

Quote:  “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years:  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Genesis 5:23-24).  Keep walking with the LORD!

 

 

 

[1] C.H. Spurgeon, Treasury of David, the electronic version in eSword.
[2] Spurgeon, ibid.
[3] “O Jesus, I Have Promised,” by John Ernest Bode (1816-1874), a hymn written 1869.  Tune: ANGEL’S STORY.  Copyright Status: Public Domain.  Words from the third stanza quoted.