A Look at Psalm 119:2

Psalm 119:2 “Blessed are they who keep His statutes and seek Him with all their heart.”
 

A statute is a distinct law, an explicit law. There is no compromising a statute – it must be obeyed. Blessed are those who practice the fear of God to the point that they recognize there is no wavering when it comes to a statute.
 

The only way to develop unwavering obedience is through seeking God with all our heart. “Their heart is deceitful [divided], and now they must bear their guilt” - Hosea 10:2 tells us that because the people of God did not have their hearts focused wholly on God, they did not seek Him wholly. Subsequently, they developed idols. Psalm 10:4 says, “In his pride the wicked does not seek Him; in all his thoughts there is no room for God.” The primary idol which causes us to not seek God is called self.
 

The people of Hosea’s day had divided hearts. They could not fully seek God because they had more than one love. David tells us that the wicked, because of pride, do not seek God. Is there any greater occupation than self? When self becomes an idol, we are no longer able to keep God’s statutes. It’s only through the keeping of His statutes that we are able to seek Him with all our heart.

To seek something with all our heart means our heart is surrendered to that thing. When we idolize self, our heart is not fully surrendered to God. Whether self is an idol or not is determined by our prayer life. If we spend relatively small amounts of time in prayer, it’s because we are not God-centered, we are self-centered. We cannot just have prayer in our life. All Christians have some type of prayer in their lives. We must have a prayer life, which, when defined, means someone whose very life comes from their time of prayer. That life is centered around prayer.
 

Let me encourage you to take some time to meditate on this verse, and as you do: ask God to help you develop a heart that seeks Him wholly.

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