Verses 1-3 To meditate in God's word, is to discourse with ourselves concerning the great things contained in it, with close application of mind and fixedness of thought. We must have constant regard to the word of God, as the rule of our actions, and the spring of our comforts; and have it in our thoughts night and day. For this purpose no time is amiss.
Verses 4-6
The ungodly are the reverse of the righteous, both in
character and condition. The ungodly are not so, ver. 4; they
are led by the counsel of the wicked, in the way of sinners, to
the seat of the scornful; they have no delight in the law of
God; they bring forth no fruit but what is evil. The righteous
are like useful, fruitful trees: the ungodly are like the chaff
which the wind drives away: the dust which the owner of the
floor desires to have driven away, as not being of any use. They
are of no worth in God's account, how highly soever they may
value themselves. They are easily driven to and fro by every
wind of temptation. The chaff may be, for a while, among the
wheat, but He is coming, whose fan is in his hand, and who will
thoroughly purge his floor. Those that, by their own sin and
folly, make themselves as chaff, will be found so before the
whirlwind and fire of Divine wrath. The doom of the ungodly is
fixed, but whenever the sinner becomes sensible of this guilt
and misery, he may be admitted into the company of the righteous
by Christ the living way, and become in Christ a new creature.
He has new desires, new pleasures, hopes, fears, sorrows,
companions, and employments. His thoughts, words, and actions
are changed. He enters on a new state, and bears a new
character. Behold, all things are become new by Divine grace,
which changes his soul into the image of the Redeemer. How
different the character and end of the ungodly!
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