The book of psalms is the biggest book in the Bible. Comprised of 150 chapters, spanning over a thousand year time with numerous authors, it is essentially one big hymnal to the glory and power of our Lord God, and how he is good to us in every situation. Throughout the psalms, we see the power of God and with that, we see that besides being a loving Father, he is a righteous judge. The authors make it clear that if we follow God's commands and do what he says, our reward in heaven will be great, but if we go the way of the world, we will perish. We see this right of the bat in Psalm 1.
"Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked...that person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither"
But let us not stop there. Just as the righteous will prosper, we are given a look at the people who are not. "Not so the wicked. They are like chaff that the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in judgement nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous."- vs 4-5
Harsh.
When we follow the world, we are spiritually uprooting ourselves from the blessings of God. Through the choices we make, we are cutting ourselves off from the nourishment of the Gardener. By choosing the life of a sinner, our trees have no root in anything that will hold fast when winds and storms come our way. Without those roots, we become weak against attack and our branches become dead and void of substance. I want to rest at the end of my life knowing that as the Lord directed, I positioned myself by the living waters that come from the Father.
"For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction."- vs 6
Adam Semple- A Young Man diving deep into the Psalms
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