¹What delight comes to the one who follows God’s ways![#1:1 Psalm 1 is the contrast of those who follow God’s ways with those who choose their own path. Read through this psalm with the purpose of learning how to live with God in the first place.]

He won’t walk in step with the wicked,

nor share the sinner’s way,

nor be found sitting in the scorner’s seat.

²His passion is to remain true to the Word of “I AM,”

meditating day and night on the true revelation of light.

³He will be standing firm like a flourishing tree

planted by God’s design,

deeply rooted by the brooks of bliss,

bearing fruit in every season of life.

He is never dry, never fainting,

ever blessed, ever prosperous.

⁴But how different are the wicked.

They are like chaff blown away by the wind.

⁵The wicked will not endure the day of judgment,

for God will not defend them.

Nothing they do will succeed or endure for long,

for they have no part with those who walk in truth.

⁶But how different it is for the righteous!

The Lord embraces their paths as they move forward

while the way of the wicked leads only to doom.