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TEXT:   PSALMS 1:1-6

God’s covenant with Israel made it clear that He would bless their obedience and judge their disobedience (Lev 26; Deut 28:1). The word “blessed” is Asher the name of one of Jacob’s sons (Gen 30:12). It’s plural: “O the happiness! O the blessedness!” The person described here met the conditions and therefore God blessed him. If we want God’s blessing, we, too, must meet the conditions.

We must be directed by the Word (v. 1). Israel was a unique and separate people; they were among the other nations but not to be contaminated by them (Num 23:9; Exo 19:5-6; Deut 32:8-10; 33:28). So it is with God’s people today: we are in the world but not of the world. We must be delighted with the Word (v. 2). We move from the negative in verse 1 to the positive. Delighting in the Word and meditating on the Word must go together (Psa 119:15-16, 23-24, 47-48, 77-78), for whatever we enjoy, we think about and pursue. “Meditate” in the Hebrew means “to mutter, to read in an undertone, “meditate and pray.

PRAYER: Lord Jesus, help me to meditate daily on your words so that I will be called blessed.