Delighting in God's Law

Ps. 1:2, “Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the
path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.”
For those who diligently seek God, there is no greater delight than learning God’s will, doing it, and reflecting on it in their minds. Along this path lies the good life. Joshua was reminded of this in God’s charge to him in, Josh. 1:8.
1. Because God is good, any word that He has spoken is good. To love Him, revere Him, and respect Him is to rejoice whenever He speaks. “The statutes of the Lord are
right, rejoicing the heart . . . more to be desired are they than gold.” Ps. 19:8-10. That
first Psalm we read said, “...blessed is one who meditates in God’s law.” Meditate means
to study, reflect on, learn from so you can put it into practice in your life.
(A) Meditation requires more than a hurried glance at the Scriptures once in a while.
It involves concentrated study first and then the leisurely contemplation of what has
been learned. When we meditate on God’s law, we admire its beauty and ponder its
application in our lives. We ruminate on it and mull it over, We indulge ourselves
in the real enjoyment of thinking about God. The godly person doesn’t just do this on
rare occasions. He does it “day and night.”
(1) The Scriptures are more than just “inspirational” literature that’s there for us to consult if we ever need a lift. But the very lift we need is to delight in the law of the Lord. You see, God has revealed His will not just to inspire us, but to govern us — and we need to meditate in it “day and night.”
2. Delighting in God’s law is simply a part of our delight in God Himself. In another of the Psalms, David said, “I delight to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart,” Ps. 40:8. The more we discover what God is really like, the more we joy in Him. And the more it will bring us to turn His precepts over and over in our minds and revel in the sheer goodness of such a great God.
(1) God is my being, my me, my strength, my beatitude, my good, my delight. Paul described it this way, “For to me, to live is Christ....it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Phip. 1:21; Gal. 2:20.
(2) Acts 20:32.

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