"For the LORD watches over the path of the godly, but the path of the wicked leads to destruction." Psalm 1:6 NLT
God actually delights in His people - and that's you! He just can't get enough of you. This is why He is looking forward to spending eternity with you in heaven. And He longs for you and I to delight in Him also. This doesn't mean going round with a bible all the day and sitting in a church for hours on end. There's nothing wrong with this, but He can enjoy our presence by us having Him on our minds throughout the day and night.
Unbelievers can't understand this and will ridicule us for it. To them, Christianity is just another religion and 'religion causes wars etc.' We should never let this stop us. They have a choice rather like we do. We chose to follow Jesus, they have decided to leave Him out of their lives which, will cost them dearly at some point if they don't change their thinking.
God encourages us to meditate on Him. This is not the kind of meditation where we completely empty our minds of everything. Not at all. Our kind of meditation is fixing our minds on Jesus, thinking about Him and when we read our bibles, thinking deeply about what he is saying to us. As we do this and become more bonded with Him, He turns us into trees of righteousness (Latter part of Isaiah 61:3). We become a planting of the Lord and have a deep root in Jesus which helps us to be solid People of God. We begin to prosper in all we do v3. But be aware, we may prosper but, we still go through hard times just like unbelievers. We are not exempt these times. The difference is, Jesus helps us contend with them. Remember that.
When you are a tree of righteousness, your leaves will never wither, you will bear good fruit even into old age and, you have a special place in God's heart. That's wonderful to think about, the Creator God, holds you in His heart. Amazing. So be encouraged, you have a special place in heaven too for when you are ready and it will be bliss. Sadly, many people will miss out on this. If they choose the second path, scripture says, 'the path of the wicked leads to destruction' v6. Do you know anyone who has chosen this second path? if so, can you help them change their mind before it is too late?
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