If you're feeling discouraged by the world's dysfunction this new year, here's Nancy's encouragement to you.

All that overwhelming wall and pressure of godlessness and paganism and filth and immorality and promiscuity and godlessness in this country and in our world,

it's no more weighty to God than the chaff that the wind

blows away effortlessly.

This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Balgamuth, co-author of Seeking Him.

For January 9, 2026. I'm Dana Gresh.

Psalm 1 describes the wicked person as chaff that blows away in the wind.

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

sure this new year counts. Nancy's on day seven of a nine-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. It's nothing

legalistic about that. I think you're just realizing as we get into this 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

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. The first half is about the righteous, and we've looked at the way of the righteous,

the characteristics of the righteous. Now we're going to turn in the Psalm and see a lot about the

character and the destiny of those that the scripture calls the wicked. This word wicked

in the English standard version, some of your translations say

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