I love to read the Psalms.  They were the hymn book from the temple.  What I like the most is that you can find one that fits your current mood and begin reading and by the end of the chapter your mood has changed like the writer.  At least this is what happens to me.

As I look at Psalm 1 I see some different lives listed.  We will take a look over the next few days at these.

I. A Wise Life – vs. 1, “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 Bible tells us that “Blessed” or happy (as an interjection how happy!) is the man that engages in certain things.  First of all the “Blessed” man does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly.  There are people that you can get advice from and there are people that you should never get advice from.

When you need counsel where do you go?  The first place a Christian should go is to our Father in prayer.  Then second place we need to go is to the Bible.  Then the third place we might go is to a fellow Christian that is mature in the faith.

Next we are told that “A Wise Life” is the life that “nor standeth in the way of sinners,”.  I was confused by this for many years.  Then upon further study and counsel from more mature Pastors I learned what this means.  This is telling you and I that this person is in the way of the sinners going the same way.  This is dangerous.  The only way that you and I should be standing “in the way of sinners” is to try to stop them from going to hell.

Then we see that “A Wise Life” is a life that “nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”    This is telling us that we must be careful not to get so far away from God that we begin to scoff at the way of the LORD.  In other words we get so far away from our God that we begin to make fun of the things that we once held dear.  This is dangerous ground.

Now, if you and I are going to live “A Wise Life” we are going to have to heed the counsel of God’s Word.  We know that wisdom comes from God and it is all through His Word.

So, how are you doing?