Today Kana, Charlene and I agreed and rejoiced in making a commitment to read the Bible in Two Years. Happy Day!
We are still thinking about:
1) Which way is easiest for us three to communicate? Facebook Notes (Under Apps on the left hand
side) or emails (or other method/s?
2)Shall we keep it private?
IF anybody else wants to do same, shall we suggest they form A SEPARATE "cell" and pick up the reading
anywhere in the 2 year plan?
3) Any other ideas?
At first I thought - I know Psalm 1 fairly well, I'm not going to
bother to read it and wanted to rather go straight to other resources. Not a good idea! So, I started to read the well-known Psalm, using Bible Gateway -
how blessed!
Here's Psalm 1 in several translations "put together".
Here's Psalm 1 in several translations "put together".
I was really challenged by some issues here such as how to interact
with those who live without God: ie, family,
friends, colleagues - in humility, love, prayer, sharing Jesus.
Psalm 1
1 Oh, the joys of those who do not follow the advice and plans
of the wicked, or walk and live in the counsel of the wicked/the ungodly or
stand submissive and inactive around with sinners, who are where they are, in
the path where they walk,or join in, rest and relax with mockers and scoffers
and the scornful.
I need to be discerning about how I interact with those who live
without God.
What does blessed mean?
2 but whose delight and desire is in the law of the Lord, and
who habitually meditates, ponders and studies on his law, precepts,
instructions, teachings day and night.
Do I truly delight in and enjoy and desire the Law of the Lord. Do I, as I can meditate, ponder, study my Lord’s law, precepts, teachings, day
and night, habitually?
3 That person is like a tree firmly planted and tended by
streams of water, along the riverbank, a tree which is ready to yield its fruit in its
season and whose leaf does not fade or wither—whatever they do prospers and
comes to maturity/fruition.
I so want to be firmly planted in places where I can be tended by
streams of water and as a result ready to yield fruit in its right season. My
leaf not fading or withering. And what I do prospers and comes to maturity.
4 Not so the wicked – those disobedient and living without God! They
are like chaff, worthless, dead, without substance that the wind scatters,
blows and drives away.
The wicked’s destiny should lead me to be sober about the outcome of
their lives: warned by it and spurred on
to love and prayer for them and sharing the good news of great joy as God gives
an open door, for example - their questions.
5 Therefore the wicked, the disobedient who are living without God
will not stand justified, but will be condemned in time of the judgment. Nor will
sinners stand in the assembly/congregation of the righteous, with those who are
upright (in Christ Jesus) and in right standing with God.
6 For the Lord knows and is fully acquainted and watches over
the way/ path of the godly (the righteous in Christ0), but the way/path of the wicked,
those who deliberately live outside God’s will, shall perish, lead to
destruction, ruin and come to naught.
