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The Blessed
Who is not Blessed?
Those who walk in the counsel of the wicked
Those who stand in sin
Those who sit and scoff
Who is Blessed?
The man who meditates upon the law of the Lord
Law
Torah- Statute, command.
Spoken or written word.
We don’t look to nature for our inspiration, but to what God has spoken directly to us.
So the Law is God’s word given as instruction through speech or writing.
Meditation
Hebrew word means to murmur, to talk to oneself.
This word would be used with the growling of an animal, or the cooing of doves.
The idea is you are so saturated with God’s law that you are speaking the truth to yourself, to your soul … day and night implies that you are always doing it (not excluding dawn or twilight).
So simply, meditation is reciting truth to oneself.
But it is also much more than that.
There’s a sense in which you are so familiar with it, that you have it memorized, or that you have wrestled and pondered upon the meaning deeply.
May we all learn to wrestle through God’s word and consider its implication deeply.
To Flourish
What does it look like if we meditate upon the law of the Lord?
Planted- permanence
Fruit- productivity
Leaf- longevity
Work- prosperity
Prosperity in all things
What does this phrase mean?
In other parts of scripture, we see it reversed.
The evil prosper and the righteous suffer:
So it seems, from the human perspective, that the wicked do prosper.
So how does this line of scripture make sense?
The Lord is looking at eternal prosperity, which might mean temporary loss so that you may gain.
But prosperity, reward, comes to those who hope through Christ
Therefore, our prosperity doesn’t necessarily imply temporary reward, but it shows our eternal reward.
There are preachers who would claim that the gospel of Christ will grant you every desire of your heart in the here and now.
This is a false gospel, the prosperity gospel.
Scripture does not teach this.
But what scripture does teach is the prosperity of those who find new life in Christ:
Though we have received God’s blessing, we still undergo trials and hardship and persecution, even death.
But we are more than conquerors.
The greater reward, is to have eternal blessing in Christ.
To Fade
What if we don’t follow the law of the Lord?
Like chaff- temporary, arbitrary
Will not stand in the judgment- doom and death
Will not be in the congregation of the righteous
Their way shall perish- a fake promise with a bitter reward
The Way Forward
Meditate on the Law of the Lord, day and night.
Dig your teeth into the meat.
Pick the bones.
Do not turn toward the easy promise of sin.
Alluring, does not end well.
Be encouraged that the wicked and that evil do not win.
There is an end to pain, to suffering, to persecution, to injustice.
Preach Christ crucified and raised to those who are on the path to eternal punishment.
We want to see others with us in the congregation of the righteous.
We were once all sinners, but God has made us alive so that we may experience his blessing and to share his blessing with others.
God does not abandon us in our mission.
When we know his instruction and we are seeking to live it out, he does not forsake us.
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