Blinded to the Counsel of Scripture

Psalms 1:1-6

One door and only one and yet the ways are two, yes this incredible gift God has given mankind is called free will, to choose blessing or curses, to choose righteousness or wickedness.  The problem all began with one man named Adam, and he decided to reject God’s best, wanting to be like God, and his action was wicked in God’s sight.  But, God had an answer a second man, His name is Jesus Christ, and He is God’s only Son, and over many years and generations, God makes it clear through His prophet and priest that without the shedding of blood there was no forgiveness of sin. 

I’m sure you have read in the gospels that Jesus the Messiah, yes the promised Messiah would come into the world. But the chosen people had waited so long and those who still were waiting for Him, did not want God’s best, a child born to a teenage virgin, a poor girl in a dirty stable, but most were looking for a King to be a great warrior and free them from all enemies.  In the gospel of John 1:10-11, ^“He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.”

Not much has changed since that time so long ago, mankind is still wanting to be a god, and even missing Jesus by looking for a messiah that they want.  So let’s explore the choice that makes a person righteous or evil in God’s sight, found in Psalms 1:1-6. “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law, he meditates day and night. 

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.  In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. 

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”

The person who chooses to receive the gift of God’s Son will be blessed if they follow the leadership of the Spirit of Christ that lives in them.  But the man/woman boy or girl that rejects God’s gift will be blind to the counsel of Scripture and will look at it as not relevant for one who is seeking a world they desire.  The ways of God are foolishness to them, and like Adam, they make a choice that God calls wicked.  C.S. Lewis give us this quote; “Two kinds of people, those who say to God “Thy will be done’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right then, have it your way.”

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice