Wit or WitOut Psalm 1:1-2

Wit or WitOut Psalm 1:1-2

What does a Geno’s Philly Cheese steak have in common with the Bible? It’s all in how you order it up? You can have the Bible one of two ways in your life: With or Without. My good friend Rob Downs was diagnosed with cancer and like a good friend that called for a road trip to Philadelphia to talk and more importantly pick up some Steak subs from Geno’s. The lines are long and fast. You have to know how to order or you don’t get served. They ask you one question: Wit or WitOut? You want it with onions or without? Want it with cheese wiz or without? When it comes to the Bible in your life you have two ways to order it: With or Without. Do you know what you are doing when you are choosing to go without?

 

How is your Bible reading going today? It couldn’t cause much harm not being in God’s word right? You started your “year through the Bible” but you stopped. Or, you’re praying but not hooking up into scripture. The Psalmist reveals what we are actually doing when we are not in God’s word regularly applying it to our life. Ready for this?

 

“1Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.” Psalm 1:1-2

 

The psalmist presents 2 alternatives. Option #1 You are in God’s word having it transform you with delight or option #2 If you’re not delighting in God’s word, if you aren’t spending time in his love letter 1) You are grieving the Holy Spirit who is in you who craves God’s law and precepts. 2) You’re getting your counsel from the world 3) By not being in God’s word, you are getting in the way of people hearing about the gospel 4. You are simply mocking God and those called to distribute the gospel because you aren’t talking about it, meditating on it, applying it to your life nor distributing it yourself. So, how is your Bible reading going today.

 

“It is God’s Word that saves souls, not our comment upon it, however correct that comment may be! Let us, then, be scrupulously careful to honor the Holy Spirit by taking the weapon which He has prepared for us, believing in the full inspiration of the sacred Scriptures and expecting God will prove their Inspiration by their effect upon the minds and hearts of men.”—Charles Spurgeon.

The Psalmist says God’s word will bring delight and you will read it with delight. Spurgeon says it will inspire hearts and minds. Are you inspired? Today stop choosing “Wit Out” and choose “Wit”. Choose delight and inspiration. The stake is always better smothered in wiz and onions too! You can’t go wrong with “wit”.