R U Blameless???

"LORD, who may dwell in your sanctuary?

Who may live on your holy hill?

He whose walk is blameless

and who does what is righteous,

who speaks the truth from his heart" --Psalm 15:1-2

In my life, I want more than anything to experience God's favor (not so much in material or emotional blessing, but to just KNOW that God is pleased with me). This Psalm asks the question, "God, who can live in your presence?" The response: "He whose walk is blameless."

Being blameless is a two sided coin. In essence, can God look at your life and honestly assess that you have no blame for wrongdoing. 

Daniel was a blameless man who honored God, and in chapter 6 we find the government officials looking for grounds to blame Daniel for anything in order to have him removed from his position because they hated him. They went over Daniel's life with a fine-tooth comb, but in the end, they could find no grounds for accusing him. Here's why:

"They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent." 

This verse shows the two sides of the proverbial "blameless coin". The obvious side of the coin is avoiding sin. The scripture says Daniel was not "corrupt". In other words, he did not do any thing wrong. As David says in Psalm 19:13, "Keep your servant from willful sins; then I will be blameless, and innocent of great transgression." .

But I believe being blameless is a weighted coin. The other side, which I think much more people struggle with, involves taking action. While Daniel avoided doing bad things, he also did not avoid doing good things. Daniel was not "negligent" as the verse says. James 4:17 says, "Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins." If we are to be blameless, we can't afford to avoid responsibility. If Daniel saw something that needed done, he did it. He didn't put it off; he didn't hope someone else would do it; he didn't justify the intrinsic importance of the task at hand as menial so as to excuse laziness or apathy.

More than anything, I want to be blameless and experience God's favor. Psalm 84 says "no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless." 

The ironic thing about Daniel's story is that the people conspiring against him made up new corrupt laws so that they could blame him for something--anything. But Daniel knew that being blameless in God's eyes is what really matters. And because he was, God protected him and shut the mouths of the lions meant to kill him. As Proverbs 2:7 says, "[God] is a shield to those whose walk is blameless," and 28:18 says, "he whose walk is blameless is kept safe."

R U blameless?

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