how I read, meditate, absorb Your word, today…
1 O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;
2 But — in the law of Jehovah [is] his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:
my prayer: Let me feel your happiness
Psalm 1 The Message (MSG)
How well God must like you—
you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon,
you don’t slink along Dead-End Road,
you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College.
2-3 Instead you thrill to God’s Word,
you chew on Scripture day and night.
You’re a tree replanted in Eden,
bearing fresh fruit every month,
Never dropping a leaf,
always in blossom.
my prayer: Renew me as a tree in Eden; your tree of knowledge, and life. Replant me.
Psalm 1 NIV
Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
Now, second, I ask the Lord to give me one or two words from by readings. Today I was given the verbs of this first song,
These highlighted in bold YLT verbs are in the past tense. The highlighted verbs in both The Message and the NIV versions of the 1st verse of Psalm 1 is the present tense. So, as I walk, stand and sit today, I remember to be in my past and to be in and to be mindful of my present
This is what the Lord gave me this first day of 2020: past and present verbs about walking, standing and sitting. What next?
Before prayer, my third step in my reading, meditating, singing is to make these God given word gifts my own. How?
I change the tenses, or in this case, I change my verbs into past or present participles. Here and now walk, stand and sit become active, present participles walking, standing and sitting. Why?
So my past becomes present. And, in order to be totally present with these word gifts, I make each gift an essential question:
• where am I walking today?
• where am I standing this day?
• how and where am I sitting today? whom am I sitting with?
My truthful, transparent and rigorously honest answer to these questions takes me to prayer, my final and fourth step.
today’s prayer: my Lord, please sit with me ‘…appoint your love and faithfulness to protect…’ (me) Psalm 62: 7b
appoint and post your love and faithfulness in all my walks, all my standings. And as I sit, rest, speak, move my heart faithfully and fully to you, my Lord.
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