Blessed Is The Man

O how great will be the satisfaction of those who refuse to live the way most people live. How glad they will be that they carefully considered and rejected this world’s ways. What joy they will have because they weighed what passes for accepted truth and saw it for the foolish ignorance that it is. These are the ones who are drawn to God’s Word, the Holy Scriptures and love to study it daily. As they become rooted and grounded in the truth they grow upward like a strong, flourishing tree beside a stream of clear water. Like a prize fruit tree they are abundantly productive, living a life of good works that glorify their father in heaven. Those who refuse the word of God and choose their own way will come to a bad end. They will be like a stunted scrub bush barely clinging to life in a dry, barren land. They bear no fruit and produce nothing of value. In the end they wither away to a brittle tangle of thorns blown like a tumbleweed across the desert. This will be clearly revealed when we stand before the great throne of God’s judgment. Those who loved their Heavenly Father and obeyed him will rejoice together in Him at his right hand. Those who loved themselves and their own ways will shrink back from his left hand in loathing and terror and fall into the eternal darkness.