Psalm 1 famously contrasts the blessed person who is holy and the wicked who are not blessed at all. The blessed person is likened to a tree planted by streams of water, and the wicked to the chaff that the wind blows away. Their destinies are quite different. The key to the prosperity of the blessed man is revealed in verse 2. It all begins with what delights that person - whose delight is in the law of the LORD, that is, more narrowly, God's commands and, more broadly, God's Word found in the Scriptures. It is what is in the Bible that excites him or her and stirs them and gives them joy. Further, they meditate on that law. They ruminate on the content of the Word. They let it go over and over in their minds. This they do day and night, that is all the time. At any time of the night or day, they are to be found thinking long and hard on some part or other of God's word. Perhaps that reveals what the Psalms really are - a series of meditations on the Word. Certainly they aid us in this task and are to be meditated over anyway as they are part of the Word of God. Put your roots down deep into the Word. That is the way to be godly. Avoid the random and unfocused attitude of the chaff-like wicked. It is as we think over the Word day and night that we get our roots down into good soil and so grow in grace. This is how Jesus himself became the Blessed one we read of in Psalm 1.
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