Week 1 - Day 1 Psalm 1:1-3

"1 How happy is the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path of sinners or join a group mockers!
2 Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted beside streams of water that bears its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers."  (HCSB - copied from http://www.mystudybible.com)

So much stuff he to digest but we will stick to the plan for now:

1. Benefits
• Blessed - happy, joyful, etc.
• We will be like a tree with constant irrigation.  Which bears a lot of fruit ("spiritual growth")
• Whatever we do will prosper and our leaf will not wither.
• Does that mean we will all have tons of $$$ and be successful?
• Something to ponder - How does Biblical Prosperity different from worldly prosperity?
2. What is this man's attitude to God's instruction?
• He delights in it
• What does that look like?
• Obviously he "meditates" in it day and night
• But when you take delight in something you can't stop talking about it. You want to be around people who delight in that (golfers want to be around other golfers; hunters, fishermen, etc.)
• You share experiences
• I am reminded of a car commercial where a guy is reading the owner's manual to his new car. He obviously finds some new feature, so he grabs his wife who is doing her nails and hair and drags her outside to show her this new feature..she was less than impressed. But there was new disguising his "delight".
• Reading the Word should be a delight and not a drudgery. 
3. How can be active in Word.
• Meditate on it day and night 
• If you literally translate the Hebrew word for delight it means to murmur over and over.  Sometimes we have to read/hear something over and over before we finally get it.

My prayer for this passage is that I would become that tree that bears fruit.