Daily Reading: 9-2-16
Psalm 1 Contemporary English Version (CEV)
If I were to ask you what makes you happy, how would you answer my question? Many people think happiness is based on temporal pleasures; when everything in life is going well we can be happy. Yet, Scripture teaches that happiness is actually simply knowing and following Truth (Jesus). We were created to live in the Truth of God’s love through the Savior. It is how God made us. So, when we do not align our lives with the Truth, we may know fleeting pleasure but not biblical happiness. If we are not discovering and following the Truth with our lives, who are we following? The advice of the Liar.
The word blessed is translated “happy or to be envied.” In our passage today, the Psalmist laid out the Way to Happiness or blessing; the way to success in everything we do.