Psalm 1

June 01, 2015 Monday Message:

“The Lord protects everyone who follows him, but the wicked follow a road that leads to ruin.” Psalm 1:6 CEV

Let’s spend some time in Psalms. King David wrote a lot of Psalms, his worship team authored several, and still others wrote a few. But David is the one who had mastered the new “alphabetic script,” where a letter represents a sound, and the sounds in any word could be represented by a series of letters. Now they could write about concepts such as love, honesty, forgiveness, compassion, grace, mercy and compound interest – subjects difficult to represent with picture-writing!

Psalm 1 counsels the believer to be like a tree planted near a riverbank, with deep roots that draw from a never-ending source of life. Verse 3 says followers of the Lord will prosper and bear fruit for the kingdom.

But not so the wicked! The worthless will be condemned at the time of judgment. Verse 5 warns us that sinners will have no place among the godly.

Therefore believers would do well to spend time with other believers. Become a member of a church family. Attend Christian events. Of course the person with whom you share the Good News about Jesus won’t be a believer, but you bring to them the Gospel FROM your solid home base where you have deep roots.

Oh the joy of those who delight in the law of the Lord!

Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship (JICF) gathers at 10 a.m. every Sunday in the North end (gym) of the Oliver Ministry Building, 2647 Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis. This week, June 7, Pastor Dale Rader – “EKG of the Heart.”