"Blameless"? "Doing nothing wrong"? Who can live up to that? Between waking up and falling asleep, most of us have already had at least one mean thought or ignored one person.

But "guarding God’s laws" and "walking in God’s ways"? Maybe that’s something we can get our heads around. Psalm 119, the longest psalm there is, is all about setting our internal dial to God’s word.

I ask myself regularly, What leads to real happiness? When was I last truly happy?

Although I look to my phone, my friends, new books, or new clothes, if I’m honest I say this: Happiness comes when I’m consciously walking with God.

When I rise early to talk to the one who made me, to feel God’s love and admit where I went wrong or need help; when I soak in the personal letters in the Bible and end the day by thanking God, that’s when I’m happiest. I blame myself less. I worry less about being wrong.

Have you tried it?

By Cari Pattison from D365