Psalm 1 - Meditation, Part 4

[Jim Watt]

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   *PSALM 1 (ASV 1901) - HEBREW INTERLINEAR - 2009-03-01*

“*THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED CONTRASTED”*


 A-she-r*e*y [835] ha*I*YSH aSHER l*o* haLAC [1980] ba-aTZATH [6098] re-sh*a
*-*I*YM [7563],

*Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the wicked, *

vu-beDErec [1870] CHAt*a*-*i*ym [2400] l*o* *a*M*A*D [5975],

*Nor stands in the way of sinners,*

v*u*-be-m*o*SHAB [4186] l*e*TZ*I*YM 3887] l*o* y*a*SH*A*B [3427]:

*Nor sits in the seat of scoffers:*

c*i*y im be-t*o*RATH [8451] Ye-h*o*VAH [3068] CHEphe-tz*o* [2656];

*2 But his delight is in the law of Jehovah;*

V*U*be-t*a*-ra-t*o* ye-heGEH [1897] y*o*M*A*M [3119] v*a*L*A*Ylah [3915].

*And in his law does he meditate day and night.*

ve-haY*A*H ce*E*TZ [6086] sh*a*T*U*L [8362] AL - pal-gh*e*y [6388] MAYim
[4325],

*3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water,*

aSHER pirY*O* [6529] yitT*E*N [5414] be-itT*O* [6256],

*That brings forth its fruit in its season,*

ve-*a*L*E*h*u* [5929] l*o* - yibB*O*L [5034];

*Whose leaf also does not wither;*

veC*O*L aSHER ya-aSEH yatzLIYach [6743].

*And whatever he does shall prosper.*

l*o* - C*E*N h*a*r-sh*a*-*I*YM [7563]

*4 The wicked are not so*

c*i*y im - camM*O*TZ [4671] aSHER - tid-dePENn*u* [5086] r*u*ACH [7307]].

*But are like the chaff which the wind drives away.*

al - C*E*N L*O* - y*a*KUm*u* [6966] re-sh*a*-*I*YM [7563] bam-mishP*A*T
[4941],

*5 Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment,*

ve-chit-t*a*-*I*YM [2400] ba-a-DATH [5712] tzad-d*i*yK*I*YM [6662].

*Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.*

c*i*y - y*o*D*E*a [3045] Ye-h*o*VAH DErec [1870] tz*a*-d*i*yK*I*YM [6662];

*6 For Jehovah knows the way of the righteous;*

veDErec re-sh*a*-*I*YM [7563] t*o*B*E*D [6].

*But the way of the wicked shall perish.*



 *JOSHUA 1:8 (1:1-9) - “JEHOVAH'S CHARGE TO JOSHUA”*

(Parallel to Psalm 1:2)


 l*o* - yaM*U*SH [4185] s*e*PHER [5612] ha-t*o*R*A*H [8451] hazZEH mipP*I*Yc
*a* [6310],

*This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth,*

ve-h*a*G*I*Ytha [1847] b*o* y*o*M*A*M veLAYlah,

*but you shall meditate on it day and night,*

leMAan tishM*O*R [8104] la-aS*O*TH [6213] ce-c*a*l - hac-c*a*TH*U*B [3789] b
*o*:

*that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it:*

c*i*y - *a*z tatzL*I*Yach [6743] eth - de-r*a*CEca [1870],

*for then you shall make your way prosperous,*

veAZ tasC*I*YL [7919].

*and then you shall have good success.*



 *JAMES 1:25 BLESSING: TO CONFORM LIFE TO PICTURE SEEN IN WORD*

ho de pa-raKUpsas [3979] eis NOmon TEleion [5046],

*But who looks into **the **perfect law,*

ton t*e*s e-leu-theRIas [1657], kai pa-raMEInas,

*the **law** of :liberty, and continues,*

ouk a-kro-aT*E*S e-pi-l*e*s-moN*E*S [1953] geNOme-nos alLA poi-*e*T*E*S
ERgou,

*being not a hearer that forgets but a doer of work,*

HOUtos maKAri-os en t*e* poi*E*sei auTOU EStai.

*this man shall be blessed in his :doing.*



 * NOTE**: *A. T. Pierson in his biography “George Muller of Bristol” p.
94-96 links the above 3 readings -


 On April 20, 1832 Mr. Muller left for Bristol. On the journey he was dumb,
having no liberty in speaking for Christ or even in giving away tracts, and
this led him to reflect. He saw that the so-called “work of the Lord” had
tempted him to substitute *action for **meditation** and communion.* He had
neglected that “still hour” with God which supplies to spiritual life alike
its breath and its bread. No lesson is more important for us to learn, yet
how slow are we to learn it: that for the lack of habitual seasons set apart
for devout *meditation* upon the word of God and for prayer, nothing else
will compensate.


 We are prone to think, for example, that converse with Christian brethren,
and the general round of Christian activity, especially when we are much
busied with preaching the Word and visits to inquiring or needy souls, make
up for the loss of aloneness with God in the secret place. We hurry to a
public service with but a few minutes of private prayer, allowing precious
time to be absorbed in social pleasures, restrained from withdrawing from
others by a false delicacy, when to excuse ourselves for needful communion
with God and his word would have been perhaps the best witness possible to
those whose company was holding us unduly! How often we rush from one public
engagement to another without any proper interval for renewing our strength
in waiting on the Lord, as though God cared more for the quantity than the
quality of our service.


 Here Mr. Muller had the grace to detect one of the foremost perils of a
busy man in this day of insane hurry. He saw that if we are to feed others
we must be fed; and that even public and united exercises of praise and
prayer can never supply that food which is dealt out to the believer only in
the closet - the shut-in place with its closed door and open window, where
he meets God alone. In a previous chapter reference has been made to the
fact that *three times* in the word of God we find a divine prescription for
a true prosperity. God says to Joshua, *“This book of the law shall not
depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate in it day and night, that
you may observe to do according to all that is written it it: for then you
shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good
success.”(Joshua 1:8)
*Five hundred years later the inspired author of the first Psalm repeats the
promise in unmistakable terms. The Spirit there says of him whose delight is
in the law of the Lord and who in His law does *meditate* day and night,
that *“he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,*

*that brings forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither;
and **whatever he does shall prosper.”*

Here the devout *meditative *student of the blessed book of God is likened
to an evergreen tree planted beside unfailing supplies of moisture; his
fruit is perennial, and so is his verdure - and *whatever he does *prospers!
More than a thousand years pass away, and, before the New Testament is
sealed up as complete, once more the Spirit bears essentially the same
blessed witness. *“Whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty and **
continues**” **(**i.e. continues **looking** - **meditating** on what he
there sees, lest he forget the impression received through the mirror of the
Word), **“this man shall be blessed in his deed.”** (James 1:25.)*


 Here then we have a threefold witness to the secret of true prosperity and
unmingled blessing: devout *meditation* and reflection upon the Scriptures,
which are at once a book of law, a river of life, and a mirror of
self-transforming power of God. That believer makes a fatal mistake who *for
any cause* neglects the prayerful study of the word of God. To read God's
holy book, by it search one's self, and turn it into prayer and so into holy
living, is the one great secret of growth in grace and godliness. The worker
*for* God must first be a worker *with* God: he must have power with God and
must prevail with Him in prayer, if he is to have power with men and prevail
with men in preaching or in any form of witnessing and serving. At all costs
let us make sure of that highest preparation for our work - the preparation
of our souls; and for this we must *take time* to be alone with His word and
His Spirit, that we may truly meet God, and understand His will and
revelation of Himself.


 If we seek the secrets of the life George Muller lived and the work he did,
this is the very key to the whole mystery, and with that key *any
believer*can unlock the doors to a prosperous growth in grace and
power in service.
God's word is His WORD - the expression of His thought, the revealing of His
mind and heart. The supreme end of life is to know God and make Him known;
and how is this possible so long as we neglect the very means He has chosen
for conveying to us that knowledge! Even Christ, the Living Word, is to be
found enshrined in the written word. Our knowledge of Christ is dependent
upon our acquaintance with the Holy Scriptures which are the reflection of
His character and glory - the firmament across the expanse of which He moves
as the Sun of righteousness.




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