We
have in this first verse [Ps.119:1] two notable lessons; the one is that God here accuses
us that every[one] of us strays and errs from the way of salvation, and
although we protest that we are willing and desirous to be saved, yet for all
that our wicked affections do in such sort carry us away, as that we desire
nothing else but that we be far from that felicity and blessedness which is set
before us. For it is said, “Blessed are those who walk in the right
way.” So much for the first point.
The
second is, that we may invent and devise many and sundry kinds of life, and so
think that we go the best and surest way that may be, and by this means deceive
ourselves; for there is but one way that leads to salvation. What way is it? It is not that which we of our own brain do
imagine. For when Isaiah says that everyone
has declined from his way, he means that we all run into everlasting
destruction. The Law of God then is the
way that must rule and order our life, and when we will listen to it, all
things shall go well with us; but whoever swerves from it, he is like a savage
and wild beast which can do nothing else but gallop and fling over the fields.
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In this
passage, Calvin highlights the importance of walking according to God’s law in
all things. To depart from this is to
head straight for destruction.
Pray today
for the many both outside and inside the church who imagine they are right with
God, but yet have invented their own DIY way of salvation; this can only lead
to eternal death. Only by walking
according to God’s plan for us may we know His blessing; otherwise, we will
find Him to be our enemy. And we don’t want that, do we?
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