Walk With God

Lady of Light

Since it is the first day of the month, I am beginning my devotional with Psalm One.
In Psalm One it tells us:

"Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his Law doth he meditate day and night..."

If we take this in the positive, blessed is the man who walks WITH God and abides in godly counsel. In Psalm 33:11, it tells us:

"The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations."

In Psalm One, we are warned not to listen to "the world", and in Psalm 33, we are told the quality of God's counsel and its blessings to future generations as well.

In order not to stand in the way of sinners, we have to be careful that our actions and behavior and attitudes do not cause sinners to stumble or prevent them from getting to know God.

Scornfulness speaks of an attitude, needless to say, unfitting for the godly.

We are able to be the kind of people God wants us to be by meditating on the law of the Lord all the time. That should be an encouragement If we do this, we will really be blessed.

In meditating on these verses, I see how important it is to stay with the word, because how can you recognize the counsel of the ungodly in all cases if you don't walk with God and know what his counsel is through his spirit and his word?

God's counsel endures, while the solutions to life that the "world" offers are only temporary. We have all heard the expression "putting a band aid on a problem".
God helps us to go beneath the surface and learn a principle that lives beyond any one situation or dilemma.

I am thankful for the guidance of God and I hope that you too will avail yourself of it as much as you can too.

God Bless You,

Lady of Light