Psalm 1”Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.”
I have known some really great teachers in my life, but one of the best ones I ever knew was my mother. Even before Mom completed her B.A. so that she could teach high school English, she was already teaching her kids all sorts of things. Mom was a tool user; she could use carpentry tools and do simple electrical repairs. Mom could hang wall paper, and in those days, that’s what most of our houses had. Try hanging wall paper sometime and you will gain new admiration for anybody who is good at it!
Mom gave impromptu biology lessons while cutting up chickens for the freezer. My first lesson in how tendons worked came from Mom. Mom was an organic gardener before it was trendy, and we learned a great deal about ways and means of protecting the vegetables without using lots of pesticides.
When Mom began teaching high school, she would bring home stories about some of her most challenging students. I have written elsewhere that Mom literally bullied many of the underachievers into excellence and encouraged others so that they completed high school and went on for further training rather than becoming high school drop-outs. Years later, I met one of Mom’s former students who still raved about how inspiring Mom was as a teacher. Mom taught in a small town high school in rural Illinois where she probably worked with 150 students during the course of a year. But Mom’s influence with those kids was enormous, and later on, they returned to thank her and to honor her.
Psalm 1 describes a person whose life is always green and flourishing. Notice, those verses say nothing about the person’s income or social standing. In the end, those things count for very little.
When computers first came into widespread use, there was a saying “GIGO,” “Garbage In, Garbage Out.” That saying still holds true, not only for computers, but also for our minds. If we meditate on God’s word day and night, it will refresh our spirits and we will continue to be fruitful throughout our lives. But if we insist on meditating on bitterness, self – pity, envy, hatred, resentment, and continually dwell on these things, we will find ourselves becoming depressed and increasingly angry with everything and everyone around us.
Today we have a choice. What scenes are we going to play on the movie screens in our minds? We can choose to turn towards God or away from Him. But in turning away, we will be slowly dying inside.
PRAYER: Father God, today help us to focus on you and not on the things that cause us to become bitter and hateful. Help us to realize that you do love us and that you want us to have abundant lives. Give us a hunger for your Word, so that we will become fruitful and remain so all of our lives. In the mighty and precious Name of King Jesus. Amen.
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