“BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful: But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.” (Psa. 1:1, 2.)
The happy man, whom David describes in the first Psalm, is one who finds his “delight” in the word of his God, and sinful ways of “the men of this world.” There are those around him who are “ungodly”; who have not the fear of God before their eyes, and who live out their days as though there were “no God”; but He is not guided by them.
“Looking unto Jesus,” is the way to be led aright in this sinful world, where we all go the wrong way if we are guided only by our own thoughts. Then, if we are directed by His “counsel” (Psa. 73:24) it is not the “way of sinners” in which we “stand.” We have learned that we are sinners, but that Christ “died for sinners”; that He “came into the world to save sinners,” and that God Himself shows “His own love,” in that while we were sinners, “Christ died for us” (Rom. 5:8). But when we are thus saved from our sins, it is no longer the “way of sinners” we delight in, but we say, “SHOW ME THY WAYS, O LORD; TEACH ME THY PATHS.” Psa. 25:4.
And we find His ways are “ways of pleasantness,” and all His paths are “peace.”
May you, dear children, take delight in reading God’s word, and thus get His wisdom, and be kept from the many sins of this world.
ML 08/19/1917