Thursday... Do you like where you are planted?

Thursday... Do you like where you are planted, do you?

Psalm 1:1 (CEB) says, "The truly happy person doesn't follow wicked advice, doesn't stand on the road of sinners, and doesn't sit with the disrespectful." That's where too many people are planted and they do not like their life. You can be replanted. You do have a choice.

Verse 2, "Instead of doing those things." That word instead is a good word. It is a word of choice. "Instead of doing those things." You have a choice in where you are planted. "Instead of doing those things, these persons" the happy person, the blessed person "these persons love the Lord's Instruction, and they recite God's Instruction day and night."

And then verse 3, "They are like a tree replanted by streams of water, which bears fruit at just the right time and whose leaves don't fade. Whatever they do succeeds." You can be replanted. You do have a choice. You really do.

So where are you planted, what are you feeding on?

Verse 4 in the Amplified Bible says, "The wicked [those who live in disobedience to God's laws] are not so, but they are like the chaff [worthless and without substance] which the wind blows away."

And then verse 2 in the Amplified Bible, "But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night." and again verse 3, "And he is like a tree firmly planted [and fed] by streams of water, which yields it fruit in its season; the leaf does not wither; And whatever he does, he prospers [and comes to maturity]."

So you can be replanted, you can be fed, you can be happy, you can prosper and come to maturity. It is your choice. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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