Here’s a reflection on the first of the psalms.

Psalm 1

It doesn’t make a lot of sense, now, does it if a person wanting to live a blessed life gets all his advice from people who are against God or walks along a path that leads away from God or sits on the sidelines being snarky all the time.

Instead, think what would happen if she decided to focus on God’s words like words from a lover, and day and night reflected on them. It’d be like a planting a tree right by a river, roots well-watered, branches bearing great fruit. The things people like that do, they prosper somehow.

A person who is against God isn’t going to grow this way. Without the water of life, you end up more like chaff, the hull on the outside of a grain of wheat, blowing away in the harvest wind. At the end of everything, when considering how life was lived, the ones who chose to be wicked will find their legs collapsing under them. And the ones who joyfully wanted “sinner” as their pursuit will find no room in the “righteous” section.

Those who trail along after God find protection along the way.

Those who are committed to avoiding that path will find themselves among the ruins.