Psalm 119
1-8
If they obey and serve him,/ they spend their days in prosperity,/ their years in happiness. (Jb 36:11)
Obedience to God’s law seems an unlikely road to happiness. Indeed, at times it seems to bring us conflict, trial, and great loss. What we lose, though, is far less than what we gain if we do the will of the God who wills nothing less for us than the joy of life everlasting in his presence.
They are happy whose life is blameless,
who follow God’s law!
They are happy who do his will,
seeking him with all their hearts,
who never do anything evil
but walk in his ways.
You have laid down your precepts
to be obeyed with care.
May my footsteps be firm
to obey your statutes.
Then I shall not be put to shame
as I heed your commands.
I will thank you with an upright heart
as I learn your decrees.
I will obey your statutes:
do not forsake me.
Glory to the Father….
Word of God 1 Peter 1:22-23
Since you havepurified yourselves by obedience to the truth for sincere mutual love, love one another intensely from a [pure] heart. You have been born anew, not from perishable but from imperishable seed, through the living and abiding word of God.
All who inhabit the world shall understand/
That nothing is better than the fear of the Lord,/
nothing more salutary than to obey his commandments.
(Sir 23:27)
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