Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Well, you're no doubt familiar with that poem by Robert Frost, and it is true that the road we choose can make all the difference in our lives.

You can take one road and end up at a totally different

destination than if you take the other. As we start into a new year, Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth

wants you to carefully consider what path to follow. She's taking us through a very helpful series

here on Revive Our Hearts. Today is January 3rd, 2019, and this is day two in the series

How to Have a Happy New Year. Well, we're looking at Psalm 1 over the course of these next days

as we start out this new year, and we're seeing in this Psalm two roads that go very different

directions. And in this Psalm, we have God's

prescription for happiness, for blessedness. Versus one through three, we see the description of the

righteous person, the person who is blessed. So let's read Psalm 1 beginning in verse 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. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that

he does, he prospers. Now, verse one tells us what this righteous person does not do. He does not

walk in the counsel of the wicked. He does not stand in the way of sinners. He does not sit in the

seat of scoffers. And I want to focus today

on those thoughts what the righteous does not do. Now, Hebrew poetry is known not so much for rhyming

sounds as English poetry is, but for what is called parallelism. That is similar thoughts that build on or explain each other.

So we have that kind of device, the parallelism, in this verse one.

We have the person who does not walk, stand, or sit, in the counsel, the way, or the seat of wicked sinners or scoffers. You see those parallel ideas?

They're actually three parallel tracks in that verse. But I think what is even more significant

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