Blessed? Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Blessed? Keywords: "counsel" "sinners" "way" "wicked" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. This study is part of a short series on blessedness vs. cheap thrills. Passage: Psalm 1:1-6* 1. Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. 3. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. 4. Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away. 5. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6. For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Question What does the word "blessed" mean (see verse 1 above)?   Practical help "Blessed" means "bringing happiness, pleasure, or contentment."** Are these things that you want? If you've searched for them in porn, you've doubtless found them short-lived, if that. Verse 1 above explains why. It says you'll never find blessedness adopting the counsel and behavior of the wicked and sinners (such as smut producers and actors). So where else to look? Check out the next studies in this short series. Meantime, it's good to know where not to look. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2004 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved. **The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2003 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.