Psalm 119:2
"How blessed are those who observe His testimonies,
Who seek Him with all their heart.”
Of inestimable value is Your word! To observe them with all my heart has value beyond description. Enrapture my heart, let me soar the heights! ‘Blessed’ is the Hebrew אֶשֶׁר, ’ešer: A masculine noun meaning a person's state of bliss. ‘Observe’ is the Hebrew נָצַר, nāṣar: A verb meaning to guard, to keep, to observe, to preserve, to hide. The word refers to people's maintaining things entrusted to them, especially to keeping the truths of God in both actions and mind (Psa 119:100, Psa 119:115). I am reminded of Psalm 119:165, the peace that ensues the loving of Your law. These seem elusive, but I trust in them.
‘…they walk in the paths of that law, which they will not trifle in, but press forward in them towards the mark, taking every step by rule and never walking at all adventures.’[1]
‘God is not truly sought by the cold researches of the brain: we must seek him with the heart… It is in vain that we endeavour to comprehend him by reason; we must apprehend him by affection. But the heart must not be divided with many objects if the Lord is to be sought by us. God is one, and we shall not know him till our heart is one. A broken heart need not be distressed at this, for no heart is so whole in its seekings after God as a heart which is broken, whereof every fragment sighs and cries after the great Father's face. It is the divided heart which the doctrine of the text censures, and strange to say, in scriptural phraseology, a heart may be divided and not broken, and it may be broken but not divided; and yet again it may be broken and be whole, and it never can be whole until it is broken. When our whole heart seeks the holy God in Christ Jesus it has come to him of whom it is written, “as many as touched him were made perfectly whole.”[2]
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