Hi, Mara.
There is about 2” of snow on the ground. I went out to do a little test drive before releasing Becki to do her Monday drive to Woodburn for a Bible Study at an assisted living center. I think she’ll be OK. I also wanted to judge whether or not I would carry on with plans to drop some big cottonwood trees at 10:30am. I plan to proceed.
I’d better get moving. I need to service a chainsaw and gather stuff. Have a great day. What are you doing today?
Love, Tua.
This is a wonderful set of promises for anyone meeting the conditions. Let’s understand that the general condition is essentially one and the same with the FIRST COMMAND—to totally love God with everything you have and with everything you are.
Twice in these three verses the word “land” is used. What is meant by “the land”—as in “the upright will live in the land,” and “the wicked will be cut off from the land”? What land? Is it really land? My judgment is that it has to do with the account of Israel being divinely delivered from slavery in Egypt with instructions to follow God’s guidance to the PROMISED LAND. In that story, those who sought to please God were the only ones to enter that land—while those who rebelled and disobeyed didn’t. In applying these ideas to practical living for today, I think the “land” (or PROMISED LAND) simply represents the whole scope of living in the presence of the Lord and getting in on all the benefits of that special personal relationship with Him. The “wicked” don’t get it. They never get in on the wonderful benefits of personal relationship with their Maker and living to please Him—they are “cut off from the land.”
Try reading Psalm 1 again and notice the similarity of our FOCUS VERSES with that basic message. That’s a good one to memorize too. It is a set of principles to assist us to maintain living in “the land” of His presence.