Psalm 1:1-2
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.
The two Paths.
This Psalm is an old friend.
It begins with THE SECRET of HAPPINESS… Meditating on the Will of the Father.
It seems like the world’s greatest goal is to find happiness. You’d think they’d be better at it.
Yet it seems we are more anxious, more fractious, angrier than ever.
That’s because the world looks in the wrong place.
The first word, normally rendered “How Blessed” in English, of this verse (as well as the first word of the Sermon on the Mount) could be translated “How Happy”… How happy is the man…
Two steps:
- Watch whom you hang out with
(You start to look and think like them) - Pay attention to the manufacturer’s handbook.
(He made you/He knows how you work)
Striving to avoid the world and meditate on God’s will… because that is where Happy is found.
Between the Garden and the Garden City 