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January 8, 1997
Psalm 1 provides a blueprint for a happy new year, as well as a happy life. Such a life, Alistair Begg insists, is not gained through grim religious determination. Instead, it springs organically from the gift of God’s grace to us. Those who live life according to God’s wisdom are marked by the way they think and act and by their regular meditation on His Word. As each new year comes, let us embrace the psalmist’s invitation to delight in the law of the Lord.
1Blessed is the man1
who awalks not in bthe counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in cthe way of sinners,
nor dsits in ethe seat of fscoffers;
2but his gdelight is in the law2 of the Lord,
and on his hlaw he meditates day and night.
3He is like ia tree
planted by jstreams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its kleaf does not wither.
lIn all that he does, he prospers.
4The wicked are not so,
but are like mchaff that the wind drives away.
5Therefore the wicked nwill not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in othe congregation of the righteous;
6for the Lord pknows qthe way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
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