Psalm 1 Prayed
Becoming more like Jesus
Lord Jesus, during the days of
your life on earth,
you
offered up prayers and petitions
with
loud cries and tears
to the one who could save you
from death,
and
you were heard
because
of your reverent submission.
For you were the blessed man,
who
did not walk in the counsel
of
the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or
sit in the seat of mockers,
yet many tax collectors and
“sinners”
came
and ate with you and your disciples.
Your delight was in the law of
your Father,
and
on his law you meditated
day
and night.
You were like a tree planted by
streams of water,
which
yields its fruit in season
and your leaf did not wither.
Whatever
you did prospered.
But I am not so!
By
nature, I am like chaff
that
the wind blows away.
Without your grace,
I
would not be able stand in the judgment,
nor
in the assembly of the righteous in heaven.
Lord Jesus, you watch over the
way of the
righteous,
Make me righteous,
for
the way of the wicked will perish.
For God made you, who had no
sin,
to
be sin for me,
so that I might become the
righteousness of God.
Only then will I have the
strength
not
to walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or
sit in the seat of mockers.
Only then will my delight be in
the
law of the Lord,
and on your word the Bible,
will
I meditate day and night.
Only then will I be like a tree
planted
by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in
season
and
whose leaf does not wither.
Only then will what I do
prosper,
for
I will be storing up for myself
treasures
in heaven.
Matt. 6:20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven…
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Psalm 1 Prayed
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