"BLESSED"

Psalm 1

 

¹ Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather.

² But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night.

³ And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity].

⁴ Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away.

⁵ Therefore the wicked [those disobedient and living without God] shall not stand [justified] in the judgment, nor ^[b]sinners in the congregation of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God].

⁶ For the Lord knows and is fully acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly [those living outside God’s will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought).

 

DEAR PRECIOUS BELIEVER; WHAT IS YOUR TRUE DELIGHT, YOUR TRUE DESIRE? IF YOUR SEARCH IS FOUND IN THINGS, BUSINESS, MINISTRY AND THEIR SUCCESS, THEN YOUR YOUR DESIRES WILL ULTIMATELY LEAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT.

 

HOWEVER, IF YOUR ANSWER IS TO DESIRE AND DELIGHT IN THE PRECEPTS AND TEACHINGS OF GOD, THEN YOU ARE LIKE A TREE FIRMLY PLANTED BY THE STREAMS OF LIVING WATERS! EVERYTHING FOR THIS MAN WILL HAPPEN IN ITS APPOINTED SEASON, HE WILL GROW AND MATURE IN WAITING AND WORSHIP. WHEN HE MOVES FOR A CAUSE GREATER THEN HIMSELF, ALL OF HEAVEN WILL BE WITH THIS MAN. "HE WILL GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH!"