Welcome to Wednesday, day three of our study. As for me, I have already started feeling the difference of the growth that has begun through this walk and I am looking forward to the changes in me that God will make through His Word as I continue to go deeper.
As for today's reading; Psalm 1-2, I was a little surprised that it was only the 2 chapters...until I read it in all three versions (KJV, NASV, and the Amplified). There really a lot going on in these two little chapters. First it says that those Christians who mind the company and council they keep, blessed and that they are the ones who are content and love God's law and practices their faith in actions and devotion to God regularly.
The chapter goes on to talk about how God is well pleased and sustains these devoted ones and how different they are from the non-believers who are wicked and practice their own ways instead of God's. These people are basically specks that will be blown away into nothing and what they want will mean nothing because God knows the righteous from the wicked and will bless one and curse the rest.
Chapter two goes on to pose the rhetorical question of why do the wicked bother to scheme and make empty and more importantly, FRUITLESS, plans based on their own foolishness. It's obvious that an answer is not required because in the next verse the answer is given in how those people are wasting all their efforts and energy and only those who follow the Lord's ways will prosper and the wicked will be destroyed by the wrath of God.
As I look at these chapters and have spent a little time looking into the background of these verses, I find that I want to do a little more studying on them as they are actually very in depth and I feel like I am still missing the mark. There fore forgive my lack of understanding or insight in these. It has occurred to me that i have never actually really studied the Psalms before, I have gone to them for comfort, for reassurance and even strength but I realize that I don't have a good working knowledge of them. This is proof of why this study is so necessary for me and it confirms the purpose of going deeper into God's Word, to put that Word into me in a way that I carry it with me in every thing I do and say always.
So, as we continue onward, hopefully, I will become more fluent in my understanding and appreciation of the Psalms.
Bye for now, please leave your own thoughts and insights by clicking on the word "comment" below.
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