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. 73:2424Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. (Psalm 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. 5:88But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 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. 25:44Show me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. (Psalm 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