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Psalms 1:1-6

“Blessed is the man”. Another translation is “Oh, how very happy is the man”. Everyone wants a happy life. We thirst for it, try any thing to find it. I have noticed a phrase that states “the one who dies with the most toys, wins”. Implying that happiness is found in possessions. The message of Psalm 1, informs us that there are two ways or two roads. One leads to God and happiness and the other leads to disaster.

The practices of a happy man, informs us first that there are three things we need to avoid (v1). It portrays a momentum of degeneration, each more permanent and embedded. Degrees of conduct (walk, stand, sit), lead to involvement (counsel, path, seat) and results in evil (wicked, sinners, scoffers). What the happy man is to involve himself (v2) in is to “delight in the Word of God”. This involves a positive choice on his part and he is to “meditate in the Word”. Meditate is a comprehensive term for applying the teachings of Scripture into daily practice.

Verse 3 lists the habits produced by heeding verse 2. The happy man becomes a person of strength, stability, testimony and success. Notice that he is like a planted tree. Transplanted into a new environment (salvation) and then beginning to exhibit the character of Christ in his life for all to see which will lead us to victory. Psalm 37:6, states “He (God) will bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noon day”.

The permanency of the happy man (godly man) is contrasted to the ungodly man in verses v4-6. The ungodly, cannot stand in the time of difficulty, but will blown away. He cannot stand in the day of judgment, nor stand with the righteous and cannot stand in life. They are earth dwellers, which will be taken away from them just as it was with the ungodly in Noah’s day. But the happy man, the godly man, is known by God who will protect him just He did with Noah.

Happy is the man, who knows God as his Savior and walks in His ways.