The year ahead could be full of purpose or it could be a disappointment.

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

Our lives have no weight, no worth, no intrinsic, ongoing value apart from being in right

relationship with God.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A 30-day Walk with God. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walkalmoon, author of A 30 Day Walk

with God in the Psalms for January 9th, 2019.

The Psalms describe the wicked person as chaff that blows away in the wind.

Nancy's here to describe what this means and why this concept is so important in making sure this

new year counts. She's on day six of an eight-part series called How to Have a Happy New Year.

As we've been starting out the year with this series, we've been challenging you to read the Bible every day during this year.

Nothing legalistic about that.

I think you're just realizing as we get into the Psalm that we can't live without the Word of God.

It's more necessary for our souls

than food is for our bodies. And most of us don't think at all, you know, we don't tell ourselves

you have to eat every day. We just do eat and we like to eat. We delight in eating. We meditate

on eating day and night, some of us. So that's not a chore.

And so we want to come to the place where it's not a chore to feed our souls, where we delight in it.

And we've said that the more we delight in the Word of God, the more we will want to meditate on it,

and the more we meditate on it, the more we will delight in it, and the more it will provide sustenance and

nourishment and stability for our souls so that we can be like that tree planted firmly

by streams of water, fruitful, flourishing. Now, as we continue in that psalm, we're going to see

a strong contrast between the first half of Psalm 1 and the second half of Psalm 1.

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