Advent Day 7

Tuesday - Psalm 1:1-3

Today I challenge you to read the text with this thought, do I truly view God’s suggestive and corrective word with happiness?  My concern as we consider the promises of God is that we truly do desire the positive outcomes but if we are honest, we internally cringe about thoughts of corrective advice that align us within the positive promises of God.  Today’s text provides a promise.  Living out the Lord’s instruction results in a life of “delight” and appreciation for walking wrong paths.  The result of this promise is that our lives “bear fruit” and do not “wither”.  Would you pray that Christ would help you to grow deeper in love with God’s corrective and directive Word?  With the same anticipation the shepherds had as they sought to find the new born savior would you approach God’s Word in the same way?         

“1 How happy is the one who does not walk in the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with sinners or sit in the company of mockers! 2 Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction,

and he meditates on it day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted beside flowing streams that bears its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.”

Psalm 1:1-3