THE BLESSED

January 2

THE BLESSED

Psalms 119:1 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.

How different from the cry we hear today! The media sirens of the world seem to sing a very different song. They tell us of the happiness of the worldly reveler. They glorify the great achievement of self-indulgence. They proclaim the glory of independence so-called. They glorify the virtue of self-determination. They teach us to be assertive, regardless of right or wrong. Today by contrast, just because the soul that is yielded to God is concerned about right and wrong, it is looked upon as weak, simple, dependant, oppressed.

Jesus said it. He said that in their generation, the children of the world are wiser than the children of Light (Luke16:8). Paul affirmed it. He said that God chooses the poor, foolish, weak and despised nothings of the world to prove its foolish prideful arrogance (1 Corinthians 1:27-28).

Now my friend; will we choose to listen to them? We live in evil times where the bad is proclaimed good and the good proclaimed bad. Will we give heed to their foolish evil proclamations? Will we be lulled by the sweet song of the sirens of Babylon and cause the boat of your life to crash against sharp reefs? Or will we adhere to the love and grace of the songs of Zion; stay the course in the instruction of God’s Word, and make it safely blessed the harbor?

James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.