Good advice

Saturday, September 11, 2010 How well we shall remember this date in history from 2001. Recently we revisited that site in New York City referred to as “Ground Zero.” And the individual who inspired that heinous crime perhaps more than any other person is still at large or at least that is what they tell us or want us to believe. I saw a glimpse of that individual on a news report via television and underneath his picture was a caption of something he was saying and at the end he said, “if God wills.”
He was not talking about the God I serve. My God came to save, not to destroy. The psalmist said in Psalm 1 and verse 1, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly ,NKJV. In the Amplified version it is expanded somewhat in order to enlighten the reader and gives a little more insight….(happy, fortunate, prosperous and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly (following their advice, their plans and purposes)…it is not for a Christian to walk in these paths. A Christian should be careful who he/she spends most of their time with and from whom they take counsel or advice. Jesus said, “where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Some people never grow up. They are still living out some childhood dream, fancying themselves as someone or something they always admired and
In so doing somehow escape reality. When you do that, you neglect God’s plan for your life. When that becomes one’s lifestyle, then they find themselves as the rest of this first verse says in Psalm 1,”submissive and active in the path where sinners walk” and the last part of that verse, and still quoting the Amplified Bible,…”sitting down to relax and rest where the scornful and the mockers gather.” It brings back the old adage to mind; “birds of a feather, flock together.
All this may have nothing to do with 9/11 but it has everything to do with our walk with God. And the second verse of Psalm 1 gives a snapshot of what the godly individual does to achieve such blessedness,…but his delight is in the law of the LORD , and in His law he meditates day and night.” You cannot do anything better with your time….it is the lifestyle that guarantees success, true success. God told Joshua in His charge to him after the death of Moses , when He commissioned him to be the next leader in Israel, “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
What better advice can a person receive than God’s Word?