Part Two

Welcome back to part two of Psalm One’s Divine Wisdom. In part one, we reviewed the first three scriptures. Today we finish with verses four, five, and six.

God’s Fairness

God’s fairness is an incredible revelation. I believe we can agree that His patience is outstanding. Throughout the Bible, we see this undeniable truth time and again.

However, He does deal with those who turn away from Him.

We learn His fairness in the last three verses of Psalm One.

Verses four and five deal with those who reject Him.

The ungodly are not so,
But are like the chaff which the wind drives away. (Psalm 1:4, NKJV)

In verse four, God uses the description of chaff in association with disbelief. Chaff is an undesirable substance for harvesting crops. It’s the seed coverings and stems. Its separation from the seeds produces profitable fruit. God shows how easily the wind blows the useless and unusable parts of seeds.

God dislikes the unholy. He warns me that if I live in disobedience without repentance, the door to His kingdom remains shut. Adam and Eve experienced this when they sinned (Genesis 3:23). He closed the Garden of Eden and guarded the Tree of Life (Genesis 3:24). At the same time, He gave them a way back into His grace (Genesis 3:22). He treats me with the same fairness.

Now we come to verse five. This verse is where He separates believers from those who are forbidden entrance into heaven.

Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment,
Nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. (Psalm 1:5,NKJV)

God’s clarity on how He deals with people who blatantly disregard His commands isn’t hard to understand. This Psalm identifies His swift justice to those who refuse to adhere to His holiness. He doesn’t hold them in judgment. No, He uses wrath (Romans 1:18). We don’t have to look very far to see God’s indignation. When Noah walked on earth, He spared him and his family from His vengeance (Genesis 7).

Did you notice that God divides sinners from faithful believers?

Aren’t we all sinners?

Yes, we are!

So why did He?

The reason God spoke these words is that by the time David’s generation came into existence, He used many of His trusted servants to bring the Israelites to repentance. Yet, they didn’t, and God took this action.

We’ve reached the final scripture in this magnificent Psalm. Verse six reveals God’s all-knowing and all-powerful presence.

For the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
But the way of the ungodly shall perish. (Psalm 1:6, NKJV)

One of the most essential revelations of God is His absolute and ultimate power. We know this truth from His creations (Genesis 1, 2). He is the Creator, and for this reason, He knows humanity’s heart. Nothing gets by Him, and He controls everything. It’s in this verse that He shows us our eternal destination. He takes notice of righteous followers and the wickedness of evildoers.

Summary

In these three final verses, we understand God’s outlook on the righteousness of a believer and His abandonment of those who reject His word. Nothing pleases God more than those that hear His voice, turn to Him, and follow His truth. Next week we’ll conclude Psalm One’s Divine Wisdom with Christ fulfillment.

What are your thoughts?