Psalm 1:1 (ESV) —
1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
NOTE: There is an
increasing degree of evil in this verse. A person walking (following his path)
but is listening to the counsel of the wicked. He then stops walking (following
God, following the path God has assigned) and stand with the sinners. He has lost
his path and is no longer making a difference. Finally, he sits down with
sinners (he has abandoned his walk) and he is a scoffer, making fun of those
who walk with God. Scoffers are also called fools in the bible. They think they
have struck on some important argument against God, but it is never well
researched or thought through. I have yet to hear an argument against God or
some contradiction in the bible that has stood up to reason. But to a scoffer,
it doesn't matter if it is true, in fact--to a scoffer--there is no absolute
truth; an argument only has to sound good, because emotion is the foundation of
their reasoning. And emotional is the easiest way to suck people into false
reasoning. But it all starts when we are listening to the counsel and reasoning
of the wicked, rather than listening to the absolute truth of the Word of God.
No comments:
Post a Comment