Today should finish Psalm 1. Verse 1 speaks of what NOT do to. Verse 2 addresses what we SHOULD do. Verses 3-5 speak to what will happen as a result of verses 1 and 2. Finally verse 6 states what God will do.
Verse 2- This verse is an encouragement to delight and meditate in scripture (the law of the Lord). I just started reading the classic, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I can already tell it is going to be a book I will look forward to reading each evening. One of those books I will want to stay up past my bedtime to read just a few more pages. Do I have that same delight and thirst for the Word of God. Sadly enough, the answer would have to be "No." Please pray for me that I will have develop the same longing for spending time in the Bible as I do classic fiction.
Now to the meditate part of verse 2. If a physicist asked me to meditate on the laws of thermodynamics. I would stare blankly at that individual and answer with a polite, "Huh?" That would be an impossibility for me because I have only a VERY surface knowledge of these laws. The same goes for scripture, if I have not committed scripture to memory, it would be impossible for me to meditate on the "law of the Lord" unless I had a Bible or other printed material at hand. To be able to meditate on God's word "day and night", I must commit portions of that law to my memory. I have attached a video clip that outlines why scripture memorization is so important.
It is interesting to note that the deeper one goes into God's Word and commitment to living a life for Him, the more He requires. But so far He has not asked anything of me He has not equipped me to complete, and the deeper the relationship, the greater the joy and peace.
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