Today I decided to open the King James Bible randomly - I had several things on my mind, a 'to-do' list, if you will, on which to work. What came up was a nice little pep talk called the 1st Psalm.
It begins with "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." I read "ungodly" as those thoughts (advice, counsel) which come from mortal mind, and thus are not from the good of divine Mind.
To me, "blessed" doesn't mean favored. We are all favorites of God, because we are all His children, equally loved by divine Love. This is not a judgment on us for our actions. One definition of "bless" is "to protect or guard from evil." Those who ignore evil or resist evil will be protected by divine Love.
This psalm goes on: "But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." In other words, listen to the divine Mind which gives only good ideas, be obedient to those ideas and you will prosper like the tree that is along the banks of a river; you will never suffer and never die ("leaf shall not wither") because divine, infinite Mind leads to infinite Life.
Verses 4 and 5 state "The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous." The ungodly, or un-good-ly, thoughts are those which have no power when the wind of divine Spirit enters our consciousness and fills it with all good. Anything opposite of good does not stick around.
The psalm concludes: "For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish." The way of the ungodly is the mortal, temporary way- it is the way that is opposite of good, opposite of God, opposite of infinite All. The opposite of all is nothing, so those which are "ungodly" have no ultimate power, or no life.
This is a pep talk for me. I have things to work out and haven't healed them yet; I need to be patient. If it is not of God, it cannot last. I should keep working, keep lifting myself above the evil and I will be blessed - protected from that evil, step by step, until that evil no longer exists.
I have the choice. Evil doesn't force itself on us - this reminds me that I can actively choose for myself whether to take the righteous or the ungodly path - and I can do it one step at a time, and know that if I find myself stepping on the ungodly path, at any time I can reverse course and step righteously. It only takes one step, no matter how small it may seem.
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