April 14, 1991
As people who possess a personal and ongoing relationship with God, Christians should be characterized by happiness. In this message from Psalm 1, Alistair Begg reminds us that happiness grounded in the delight of God shapes our thinking, behavior, and affections. By embracing the challenge to model lives of genuine joy, we point our hurting world to God’s goodness and worth.
1Blessed is the man1
who awalks not in bthe counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in cthe way of sinners,
nor dsits in ethe seat of fscoffers;
2but his gdelight is in the law2 of the Lord,
and on his hlaw he meditates day and night.
3He is like ia tree
planted by jstreams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its kleaf does not wither.
lIn all that he does, he prospers.
4The wicked are not so,
but are like mchaff that the wind drives away.
5Therefore the wicked nwill not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in othe congregation of the righteous;
6for the Lord pknows qthe way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
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