Scripture to Meditate on

Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, 
who seek him with their whole heart,

who also do no wrong, 
but walk in his ways! Psalm 119:2,3

The psalmist still wants to talk about being blessed. Here, he lists some requirements for someone to be blessed. One thing to note from this is that being blessed is not automatic. And once you consider the requirements you'll see that being blessed is also not easily gained.

There are four verbs here that describe those who will be blessed: keep, seek, do, walk.

Keep is just another way to refer to obedience. To be blessed, one needs to obey what God has commanded in His testimonies, that is, the Scriptures.

Seek has to do with the goal of that obedience. The goal is not to be arrive at the finish line acclaimed as a good (obedient) person. The goal is God. It's all about knowing, enjoying, serving, worshiping Him. Obedience is simply a means to that goal.

Do, here, is actually about what one does not do: what is wrong. This, of course, follows from the previous two verbs, keep and seek.

Walk. This is a metaphor used by the Scriptures to refer to a way of life. (Why this metaphor is used I'll leave to you to ponder.) The point that the psalmist is making is not complicated. The person who will be blessed is the person who lives in a certain way, God's way, the way that God has revealed. This isn't about how one acts in this or that situation. It's about how one is to act in every aspect of life.

So, requirements if you want to be blessed: keep, seek, do, walk.

Here's the question to work on now. How can people like us, people who still sin, people who don't keep, don't seek, do wrong and fail to walk in His ways, be blessed?

Here are a couple of thoughts to start you on your way to answer this question.

First, it's possible to for people like us to be blessed. Otherwise, why is this verse (and others like it) in the Bible? Second, you need to see all of this in terms of the Gospel.