A Good Heart—Part 3

The past two days we have been considering the kind of heart that draws forth God’s promise to strongly support (2 Chronicles 16:9).  David prays for such a heart in Psalm 119:80.  “May my heart be blameless in Your statutes.”  The word that describes the heart as “blameless,” means good, sound, complete, or having integrity.  All of Psalm 119 concerns such a heart.  The very first verse of this great psalm tells us that God blesses “those whose way is blameless.”  A good heart will reveal itself in a life that displays the same virtues.  God is always seeking those who have such good hearts, that He may bless them and strongly support them in all that they do.  In Psalm 119:8, David sums up his meditation on the necessity and result of obeying God’s law (verses 1-7): “I shall keep Your statutes; do not forsake me utterly.”  This expresses his intense resolve to obey God’s law, and his acknowledgement that he cannot do that without God’s grace.  David fervently loves God’s word, and yet he is aware of his inability to live in a way that is consistent with what he loves.  Not only is grace needed by every Christian to obey, but even the desire and resolve to do so are fruits of grace.