I have started to mix up my readings even more, including a psalm as well. This, the first psalm, is one of my favorites and I have partially quoted it here.  I love the image of the tree beside the river.

“Happy are those who reject the advice of evil men, who do not follow the example of sinners or join those who have no use for God. Instead they find joy in obeying the Law of the Lord.

“They are like trees that grow beside a stream, that bear fruit at the right time, and whose leaves do not dry up. They succeed in everything they do……”

Meanwhile Joshua 8-9 continues the story of how the Israelites take over Canaan. God gives some interesting military tactics: Joshua is commanded to camp with 30,000 men down the bottom of a hill that contains a town that has recently beaten off the Israelites (because one Israelite took things he should not have from Jericho ) When they men of the town, Ai, come down to chase them off again, they are to attack the town with a second, smaller group of men.

Dear God, please let me and my family be like the tree in Psalm One. Let us love your law – to love you with our whole heart and soul, and to love others as ourselves – and let us bear fruit at the right time. Thank you for a lovely weekend Father God, and thank you for K and J, the two lovely Jehovahs who come to visit each week. Please help me to find your true path from amongst all the interpretations of Your word, and when I get lost, please find me as you promise to do. Please forgive me my sins, in Jesus’ name, Amen.