The choices you don't make are just as vital to your spiritual walk as the choices you do make. And not many choices are more significant than the friends and confidants you chose to be active participants in your life--those with whom you fellowship. Wrong friends. Wrong path. Wrong walk. A lifetime of wrong choices. The loss of a sense of His presence. And what a loss that is!
"But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night."
His delight--not his duty. A choice to hunger and thirst after righteousness is the only path to satisfaction--to godliness with contentment. To a life of rich blessing. Is your mind so saturated with His Word that day or night His freedom giving thoughts are constantly active, constantly counseling you in the way that you should go?
"And he (or she) will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he grows toward maturity."
How does choosing the right friends and choosing to delightfully feast on the Word impact the quality of your life? You will stand firm in the storms. You will endure the worst droughts. You will reflect His character to all those around you--be a blessing to those God has placed in your life. You will grow on to spiritual maturity in all that you do.
"The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives away."
They are spiritually dead. Lifeless. No fruit. No substance. The opposite of everything you are in Him. What fellowship has light with darkness?
"Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord approves the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish."
Choose your friends wisely. Walk in His way not their way. Delight in His Counsel not their empty words. Be His evergreen. Firmly planted, not as powerless as chaff in the winds of life's storms. How spiritually prosperous are you? How spiritually prosperous will be the whole course of your life? Whose approval are you seeking?
His delight--not his duty. A choice to hunger and thirst after righteousness is the only path to satisfaction--to godliness with contentment. To a life of rich blessing. Is your mind so saturated with His Word that day or night His freedom giving thoughts are constantly active, constantly counseling you in the way that you should go?
"And he (or she) will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he grows toward maturity."
How does choosing the right friends and choosing to delightfully feast on the Word impact the quality of your life? You will stand firm in the storms. You will endure the worst droughts. You will reflect His character to all those around you--be a blessing to those God has placed in your life. You will grow on to spiritual maturity in all that you do.
"The wicked are not so, but they are like chaff which the wind drives away."
They are spiritually dead. Lifeless. No fruit. No substance. The opposite of everything you are in Him. What fellowship has light with darkness?
"Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord approves the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish."
Choose your friends wisely. Walk in His way not their way. Delight in His Counsel not their empty words. Be His evergreen. Firmly planted, not as powerless as chaff in the winds of life's storms. How spiritually prosperous are you? How spiritually prosperous will be the whole course of your life? Whose approval are you seeking?
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