PERFECT IN HEART LEADS TO PERFECT IN THE WAY Part 1

The wisdom of the fathers

PERFECT IN HEART LEADS TO PERFECT IN THE WAY Part 1

"Blessed are they that are perfect in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, that seek Him with the whole heart." Ps. 119: 1, 2. "Let my heart be perfect in Thy testimonies." Ps. 119: 80. "I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. Oh! when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart." Ps. 101: 2. We have seen what Scripture says of the perfect heart: here it speaks of the perfect walk. "

These are the opening words of the beautiful psalm, in which there is given to us the picture, from the witness of personal experience, of the wonderful blessedness of a life in the law and the will of God. As he looks back upon the past, the Psalmist does not hesitate to claim that he has kept that law: "I have kept Your testimonies;" " I have conformed to Your law;" "I did not desert Your standards ;" "I have not strayed from Your judgments;" "I have done judgment and justice;" "I have not swerved from Your testimonies;" "I have done Your commandments;" "My soul has conformed to Your declarations." Of a truth may the man who can look up to God and, in simplicity of soul, speak thus, say, "How blessed are the perfect in the way!"

(from Be Perfect" by Andrew Murray)