PrayerBits for Friday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Friday

Scripture Lesson: Psalm 1 The premier Psalm

Time to reflect: Psalm 1 was added to be the introduction to the entire collection of Psalms (Psalm 2 is the introductory Psalm for the first “book” or sub-collection of Psalms). It ties the Psalms to the rest of the Bible and gives an overview of the type of person who will use the Psalms. It uses a technique that was important when it was written – the contrasting of two ways.

Moving Throughout the day: Read the Psalm carefully and prayerfully consider in what ways you are like the righteous and in what ways are you like the wicked of this Psalm.

 Scripture:

Blessed is the man
       who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
       or stand in the way of sinners
       or sit in the seat of mockers.

  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,
       which yields its fruit in season
       and whose leaf does not wither.
       Whatever he does prospers.

  Not so the wicked!
       They are like chaff
       that the wind blows away.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
       nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

  For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
       but the way of the wicked will perish.