Hey, church family, it is Devo time.

If you got your Bibles, which are required for DeVos, I think, Psalm chapter 1.

I told you I've been in the Psalms a whole lot lately throughout this period.

And I can tell you, just for me, last week was a tough week with the information about the young man, Amad in Brunswick, Georgia.

Also, I lost a friend of mine who was in the ministry in a very tragic way.

And particularly with my thoughts about what happened in Brunswick,

with this young African-American man losing his life,

what it led me to think about is just the empathy I have for the fathers,

the African-American fathers speaking to their African-American sons

in America about identity and who you are in a way that I'll never be required to have a conversation

like that with JP.

And the reason it led me to Psalm 1 is this. I've been praying Psalm 1 over my son for 14 years.

He's 14 years old. I typically pray Psalm 139 over Reagan and Psalm 1 over JP. And a part of the

reason I want to do that is both of them have to do with identity.

We covered Psalm 139 last week, which is about being about being an image bearer of God that

he has created us and knit us together in our mother's womb. And Psalm chapter one has to do

with who you are and where your identity comes from.

And I wanted to just plant the anchor of the truth of God's words so deep in his, my little

boy's soul that as he grew up, no matter what this world tried to tell him about who he is,

he could reject the lies of the enemy and be rooted and grounded in the

never-changing, always-true word of God. And just as true as it is for a little boy growing

into a teenager that will be a young man, that will be a grown man. These words are just as true

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