Psalms Challenge

I am setting a Psalms challenge for myself: to go through the Psalms, picking out verses that impart more knowledge of who God is. Sometimes I think people are hesitant to know God because they do not know what kind of God He might turn out to be.

I love the poetry and purpose of the Psalms, as they are both songs and prayers, both cries of pain and praise, and both personal and able to be used in the assembly of believers.

Today is Psalm 1:

Though this Psalm is primarily about the righteous man and the wicked man, the last verse tells us that, "the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish."

This reassures me of God's justice, love of righteousness, and hatred for wicked things. In a world that is often tainted, and in novels where the hero has to have a "tragic flaw," it is so comforting to know of God's pure, righteous character.

In a world of so much injustice, it is good to know that God is following each person, and knows their ways, whether wicked or righteous. And His justice will be carried out.

Of course, we are all the wicked man (or woman) at some point, walking in the counsel of those who don't have Godly things in mind. But If we are delighting in the law of the Lord, and have accepted the blood of Christ, by faith, as an atonement for our sin, then we are given His righteousness, which we can walk in!


Thank God for His righteousness and justice today. Thank Him for the blood of Christ, by which you can be called righteous. What a great God we serve!