Chicago Mass Choir- “I Pray We’ll Be Ready”

When we are talking about knowledge, we are talking about learning what is the truth and living in that. Psalm 1 provides the positive direction to making that happen. There is direction for my roots to go down into the richness of the kingdom of God. It is here that my life produces fruit. The mark of a disciplined disciple is that they do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

Psalm 1 provides the incentive to pray. It starts with happiness – do I want to be happy? As prayer is displayed as a pensive prayer (meditation), prayer starts with listening for God, not talking.

But his delight is in the law^[b] of the Lord,
    and on his law he meditates day and night. – Psalm 1:2 ESV

I am called, as one walking in a right relationship with God to continually run from the influence of wickedness and passionately embrace godliness. Happy people do not just do the right thing, they love the right thing.

A right relationship with God does not refer to having my sins forgiven so that I get into heaven when I die. Nor is it the minimum requirement for such salvation. Actually, there is no minimum requirement for salvation. A right relationship with God is becoming a disciple – someone who conformed their entire life to look like their master.

So the implied definition here is that I live dependent on meditating on the word of God. Kelly R Baker has some great thoughts in her blog – Thriving in Christ Together.  

What a Thriving Disciple of Christ Does and Doesn’t Do

Being saturated in God’s Word is a mark of a disciple who seeks to know God better. Also included in that to ask Him to hear His voice, and long for Him to change my heart through His Word.

There is a rhythm – a disciple reflects and responds to God’s Word on a regular basis in order to live as God intends. 

When I meditate, I simply chew on the Word of God.