Hints on Happiness
BOOK I
(Psalms 1-41)
The Way to Happiness
1 God blesses those people
who refuse evil advice
and won’t follow sinners
or join in sneering at God.
2 Instead, the Law of the Lord
makes them happy,
and they think about it
day and night.
3 They are like trees
growing beside a stream,
trees that produce
fruit in season
and always have leaves.
Those people succeed
in everything they do.
4 That isn’t true of those
who are evil,
because they are like straw
blown by the wind.
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5 Sinners won’t have an excuse
on the day of judgment,
and they won’t have a place
with the people of God.
6 The Lord protects everyone
who follows him,
but the wicked follow a road
that leads to ruin.
So the way to be happy is to refuse bad advice, to not sneer at God, but to read and think about God’s word. As trees draw life from the stream, so the wise draw their strength from God.
Pam's Perambulation 