Psalm 1

My favorite Psalm is the first.

1 Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stand in the way of sinners,
nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in Yahweh’s law.
On his law he meditates day and night.
3 He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water,
that brings forth its fruit in its season,
whose leaf also does not wither.
Whatever he does shall prosper.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked shall perish.

"... his delight is Yahweh's law"--not the law, as in a book of rules, but the Bible as the Lord's Word. "On his law he meditates day and night." That's what a wise man does--what we should do--meditate on the Bible day and night. "Whatever he does shall prosper." Of course, in this world, what the wise man does doesn't always prosper, but the wise man doesn't live for this world.

"The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away." True, the wicked may "prosper" for a time, but in the scheme of things, that time is fleeting. "Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment" and "the way of the wicked shall perish." A most horrible fate.

I want to be the wise man, not the evil one.