An Ethic Worthy Of Blessing

Free From Sin’s Constraints

Read Psalm 1:1-2, “1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.”

What does it even mean? Verse 1 states, that blessed is the man. And then it explains what blessedness is. At times we see material blessing as God’s blessing, and it can be and is, but this is descriptive of moral. Blessed is the person who:

Walks not in the counsel of the wicked:

does not listen to and go in the direction of wicked people, and people who counsel by worldly standards.

2. Or stands in the way of sinners:

a. Someone who is not walking in the ways of sinning, as people who have no allegiance to God. Someone who is not sinning.

3. Someone not sitting in the seat of scoffers:

a. Or another word is mockers. Mocking is a lot more than just a verbal statement. Someone can mock you, directly, but lifestyle here is also implied by the above verses. Lifestyles can also make a godly life look and appear foolish. This is mocking. These people take a seat of judgment and by how they live, they judge godly and righteous people as fools.

4. The man is blessed who delights in the law of God and meditates on it continually.

a. an implied reason for the ability to escape the clutches and the grasps of the evil people in this persons lives, and the evil in ones own sinful heart, will be that they meditate on the Scriptures, daily and even at night.

b. Meditation on the Scriptures produces the reader to daily choose to submit to it’s wisdom. The law of God guides the heart, and the mind, and in life, decisions that are crucial have already been addressed through the meditation on truth. It means your sword, is ready.

Only Due To Applied Obedience

Psalm 1:3-4, “He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away.”

He is like a tree: The blessed man, he grows strong. Blood. Tears. Sweat. No other way. The road to growth, and fullness as exemplified here, is a difficult and decisive and strenuous road.

Action or material prosperity is not “always” in itself a sign of maturity in faith, which these verses speak of.

The discernible pin-point of dynamite insight is the ethic. It is all about the ethic here.

It is what is at the make up of the action, and the inner recesses of the motivations of the heart and mind in the actions. The faith-applied ethic, in action, always will have prosperity. And sometimes, God even prospers the material due to his choices that are transcendent.

The Spiritual man is an ethical man, following Jesus where he leads and drinks from the rivers of the Spirit. This persons life bears fruit, when Christ comes to see and test it he doesn’t curse it. It is rooted, and when others dry up and fade out, this person is seen as joyful and faithful, and harvesting and abundantly producing, just as in the times when there were no outward sufferings and in the heat of the sun, just as when it rains.

But we see that the trials that come on the earth, that are common (equally received and experienced) by all man, that the blessed man, who makes the law of God his delight, will remain standing, when others seem to and directly fail in faith.

Deliverance

Read Psalm 1:5-6, “Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”

The wicked will not be able to stand, because we are addressing an ethic here. The basis for standing is not outer, but inner. It has to do with being righteous. The spiritual prosperity of the righteous will always be a reality. God knows the righteous, he knows their ways and paths. He knows their character and ethic, and knows that their motivation is to worship and to give God glory. But even if the outer of the wicked seem to prosper, the ethic of the unrighteous will be their ruin and will perish. Everything will seem to be un-useful for eternity. While even the material of the righteous will be useful for eternity, because of the inner ethic of being faithful.