Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,
Psalms 119:2 (ESV)
who seek him with their whole heart,
The “testimonies” in this verse refers to the truths that Yahweh has established through his actions with his people. For example, the truths that God is all-powerful and delivers his people based on his deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt. This is Yahweh’s testimony and one who keeps this testimony is one who lives according to the truths that God established by this and all the other interactions that Yahweh has had with his people.
We are blessed when we keep God’s testimonies, established through his Son and his Apostles. Jesus showed us how to live through his life and death, and his Apostles followed in his footsteps. Paul said “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” (1 Corinthians 11:1, ESV). Thus, we are to imitate the “testimonies” we see in the lives of Christ and his Apostles. We seek to follow their example with our “whole heart”.
In this way, we will be blessed; our hearts will receive blessing now and will be fully blessed in the next age on the New Earth in the New Garden. Who else can obtain the blessings that God gives? No one. Only those who “keep his testimonies”. No one else can have the Holy Spirit inside them. No one else can have the inner peace that God gives. No one else can have joy in their spirit in the midst of trials, knowing that nothing can separate us from God’s love and the destiny he has promised to us.
