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Friday, May 1, 2015

Psalm 1:1-6 (NLT)...

FROM TODAY'S READING (5/1/2015)...

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Psalm 1 (The Message, paraphrase)

1 How well God must like you—
you don’t hang out at Sin Saloon,
you don’t slink along Dead-End Road,
you don’t go to Smart-Mouth College.

2-3 Instead you thrill to God’s Word,
you chew on Scripture day and night.
You’re a tree replanted in Eden,
bearing fresh fruit every month,
Never dropping a leaf,
always in blossom.

4-5 You’re not at all like the wicked,
who are mere windblown dust—
Without defense in court,
unfit company for innocent people.

6 God charts the road you take.
The road they take is Skid Row.