Observe Them Diligently: Part 1

“You have commanded Your precepts to be observed diligently.” (Psalm 119:4)

There are possible “obediences” that cannot be acceptable to God. The things required are done but there is no heart, and therefore no merit in the doing.

“Diligently” implies attentively, carefully, intelligently, and persistently. And when we worthily apprehend God, we discover that what He accepts is the spirit in the doing, not the mere doing. It is not enough for God that He gets what He wants done; He fixes attention on the spirit that finds expression in the doing.