How To Be Blameless

Psalm 119 is the longest chapter in the Bible as well as the longest prayer in the Bible. It is as beautiful as it is instructive. It teaches us how to pray, which is the most important prayer request you can ask; “Lord, teach us to pray…” Luke 11:1.

                                                         
The first three verses of Psalm 119 are the only verses in the Psalm that are not a prayer.
 
“Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk in the law of the LORD. Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with their whole heart. They also do no wrong, but walk in His ways.”
 
These verses describe the outcome of allowing this prayer to shape your prayer life for a lifetime of praying. The three words and phrases that it uses to describe that life are blameless, keep His testimonies, do no wrong.
 
Some are overwhelmed by the impossibility of ever becoming blameless, or always keeping God’s testimonies, or never doing wrong. But that is because we think in terms of performance but the Bible does not; it presents perfection as progress in a particular direction; and that particular direction is in following God’s Word.
 
Progress is seen in the three phrases walking in the law, seeking Him, walking in His ways. The only way this can be done is to trust and obey, one step at a time; not with perfect performance but by faithful progress in His Word.

Allow God’s Word to shape your prayers and begin seeing what He can do. “Lord, teach us to pray…”