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Do you want to experience the blessing of God? Then let’s look at how doing two very simple things leads to a blessing. Here is the second verse of Psalm one hundred and nineteen:
Psalm 119:2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
This verse, like all the first eight verses of this great Psalm, begins with the Hebrew letter ‘Aleph’, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. So what is the first word of it? Well, just as in verse one, it’s ‘Ash-er’, which means ‘blessed’ or bless-ed’ and also ‘happy’.
A second blessing
There was a blessing in verse one for the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the LORD. And now we get what the great nineteenth-century preacher Charles Spurgeon described as a second blessing, in verse two.
How do we get this blessing? Firstly, we keep the testimonies of God. Testimony is another word for witness. God’s witness, or his testimony, refers to his word and his commandments.
Spurgeon went on: ‘Blessedness is ascribed to those who treasure up the testimonies of the Lord: in which is implied that they search the Scriptures, that they come to an understanding of them, that they love them, and then that they continue in the practice of them.
‘We must first get a thing before we can keep it. In order to keep it well we must get a firm grip of it: we cannot keep in the heart that which we have not heartily embraced by the affections.’
Seek him with your whole heart
So we study and treasure God’s word and we love it and keep to it. Then the Psalmist says God’s blessing comes upon those who do not just ‘keep his testimonies’, but ‘that seek him with the whole heart’.
We have an English expression ‘whole-heartedly’. You don’t find anyone who is going to be a truly great sportsman cutting corners in the gym or on the track. You don’t find anyone who is going to be a great entrepreneur giving up at the first hurdle. Those who aren’t whole-hearted won’t succeed.
British statesman Winston Churchill said: ‘It’s no use saying, “We are doing our best.” You have to succeed by doing what is necessary.’
Whoever will seek God with intensity and determination will find him. I guess whatever you seek whole-heartedly you will find. You can seek fame, riches, thrills, attention, notoriety, whatever. But you’ll have no peace, no fulfilment, no authenticity, no joy, no happiness, until you seek – and find – God.
Not in pagan false gods
To complicate matters, people try to seek God in all sorts of ways. Spurgeon observed that people seek God ‘Among the trees, the hills, the planets, the stars. He has been sought in his own defaced image, man. He has been sought amid the mysterious wheels of Providence.’
Today, we can add to Spurgeon’s list of pagan false gods the occult, spiritualism, pan-theistic paths like yoga and hinduism, the buddhist nirvana, Islam – and the list goes on.
But actually, God must be sought – and can only be found – in the person of Jesus Christ, born as a baby, walking amongst us, dying on Calvary’s hill, buried and rising again, ascended and glorified. Make no mistake, there is no other name by which we must – or can – be saved.
A personal quest
Yours is a personal quest to find a personal God and that personal God is found in the Lord Jesus. So seek him in prayer, calling out to him to reveal himself to you and to show you what to do. Just don’t muck about. This is not a place for half-heartedness. If you keep half your heart in some other camp you’ll never find the Lord. But if you do it all with your whole heart, that is keep his testimonies, and seek him, you will both find him and receive his blessing. Others have done it. This is your time to realise that you can too!
Two verses, two blessings! Can it get any better in verse three? Actually, it can. No spoilers! You just wait and see. And share this Nanosermon.
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