Let’s talk about Psalm 1 in the crazy Orwellian world we’re living in now. Who are you taking advice from? Who are you looking to “fix this?” The wicked? I don’t think they have a solution… Who are you “standing” with in all this? The sinners? Are we responding like everyone else in our neighborhood with fear and hopelessness? Have we really turned to God in repentance and prayer, or are we seated with the mockers who think that will do no good?
You’re like a tree planted by flowing streams – feeding on God’s word and drinking of his Spirit. Stay there and you’ll be just fine. Psalm 1 reminds us that God’s got your back!
The Bible begins with a journey. “By faith Abraham…set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tent…he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” (Hebrews 11:8–10, CSB)
Abraham never found the place for which his heart longed and his soul yearned while he was alive.
Life is a journey. Each oasis we find in the desert ultimately fails to satisfy. We live in tents…but the city we desire remains just out of reach.
We’ll going to look at the Psalms in order to investigate what we need to reach that city.
Let’s talk about Psalm 1 in the crazy Orwellian world we’re living in now. Who are you taking advice from? Who are you looking to “fix this?” The wicked? I don’t think they have a solution… Who are you “standing” with in all this? The sinners? Are we responding like everyone else in our neighborhood with fear and hopelessness? Have we really turned to God in repentance and prayer, or are we seated with the mockers who think that will do no good?
You’re like a tree planted by flowing streams – feeding on God’s word and drinking of his Spirit. Stay there and you’ll be just fine. Psalm 1 reminds us that God’s got your back!
The Bible begins with a journey. “By faith Abraham…set out for a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance. He went out, even though he did not know where he was going. By faith he stayed as a foreigner in the land of promise, living in tent…he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.” (Hebrews 11:8–10, CSB)
Abraham never found the place for which his heart longed and his soul yearned while he was alive.
Life is a journey. Each oasis we find in the desert ultimately fails to satisfy. We live in tents…but the city we desire remains just out of reach.
We’ll going to look at the Psalms in order to investigate what we need to reach that city.
