Psalm 1

God's blessing falls on the man 
who rejects the wickedness way 
refuses walking along with sinners 
staying upright no matter what scoffers say 

This man is delighted by God's holy law 
seeking to make it his meditation 
all of the day and even in the night 
so to learn more of God on every occasion 

A well planted tree resembles this man 
for it also bears good seasoned fruit 
as streaming water bears it's leaf 
so prospering it does suit 

The wind drives the wicked away 
likened to the chaff as before 
for they can't stand in judgement 
as sinners at the righteous door 

The righteous way the Lord knows well 
for God's eyes penetrates everything 
showing the wicked and their ways 
will perish as God judges sin 

AUTHOR NOTES:
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.

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.
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.

Psalm 1 vs 1-6 (ESV)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Guillermo - Fraser Avatar
September 9, 2014 at 9:32 PM
I'm blessed by your write..:) thanks much for dropping by in my poem..:) GBU and keep writing..:) I have a poem entitled FINDING GOD..:) I hope you will like it..:)
Mcconnell Avatar
September 10, 2014 at 12:21 PM
thanks Olive, nice to hear from you, I'll check out your piece, God bless, Gordon
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