"Blessed is the man…."

Psalms 1:1-6(NKJV)

1    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;

2    But his delight is in the law of the Lord,      And in His law he meditates day and night.

Sometimes simple is best.  "Blessed is the man…." got my attention.  Who doesn't want to be blessed?  So I read on.  "….Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.". 

OK, that seems simple enough.  One of the themes I have been encountering recently is that we will be held accountable for what we believe and who we listen to.  In other words we have to discern who to listen to.

How do we do that?  With all the competing voices in the world, how do we know who to listen to and who not to?  In other words how do we discern the counsel of the Godly from the ungodly.  That would require a judgment wouldn't it?

Yes it would!  As I've said in the past, there are plenty of places in the Bible that tell us to make judgments.  I've noticed that in most cases, when the Bible tells us to make a judgment, the Bible also gives us the standards to use.  Such is the case here.

"But his delight is in the law of the Lord,      And in His law he meditates day and night."

The people you are listening to, do you see the above Scripture in their lives?  If so I'd say that is probably a good indication that the people you are listening to are well grounded. 

Isn't it nice when God gives us an easy one now and then?