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:
The happy man, whom David describes in the first Psalm, is one who finds his “delight” in the word of his God, and who keeps himself apart from the selfish 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.
We have learned that we are sinners, but that Christ “died for 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)).
When we are thus saved from our sins, it is no longer the “way of sinners” we delight in, but we say,
ML 09/19/1937