Psalm 101

“I will be careful to lead a blameless life” (2). The psalmist desires that God’s people reflect the “love and justice” (1) of God. It begins with the King himself who commits to living a “blameless life” and conducting the “affairs of his house” with a “blameless heart” (2). He wants to make sure that the people who “dwell in his house” will be deceit-free (7).

Like David, we are called to imitate the love and justice of God. The great news is that we are not left to our own resources to clean our hearts or modify our behavior. By the grace of Jesus, we can “walk by the Spirit and not satisfy the desires of the flesh” (Gal 5:16).