Psalm 1

My mindset, the Western Nationalistic Christianity mindset is one of trying desperately to uphold our own ideas of right morality, propriety, and decorum. This isn't what God is talking about in Psalm 1. Sure, there are many people who get what God is saying and are living a life that is pleasing to God, and a big part of that reflects the above mentioned attributes. However, I'm sure that I am not the only one to have seen many people living a life upholding these standards, but walking around as a lifeless creature, as though all the air has been taken from their lungs.
I've met many people who seem to have it all together on the outside. People that are involved, active, fighting for change, respectful; people that don't partake in debauchery and wickedness; people who live their lives protecting their exterior, but all the while they are broken and shattered within. This isn't the type of life Christ planned for us. This isn't His Genesis of an idea of how humanity should be lived out.
Some people think that immersing ourselves into a relationship with the homeless or the downcast, addicts, prostitutes, is to turn our back on a life of morality, a life of holiness. But God spent the most time with the lost, the forsaken, the lowly, the forgotten. And this isn't to say that we must immediately immerse ourselves into that lifestyle; no, this is to say that we should remove the part of our minds and hearts that causes us to think less of them than we do of ourselves.

Psalm 1 is an inspiration and a heart wreck all in one. We are being told that we are loved by God, that we are innocent people, we don't hang out at "sin saloon", "how well God must like us"....to me, this is something incredibly hard to swallow, to digest. I chew it around and it seems to always have to be forced down my throat. I'm not innocent. I sometimes hang out at sin saloon. I don't understand how my God can call me lover, child of mine. And that's exactly it. I don't understand it. And I shouldn't, because I didn't design it, and I don't have the capacity to think in the context as Jesus Christ does. But I am blessed and loved beyond measure anyways.

"We have a God who is bringing us back, and we are responding with every heartbeat".-David Crowder

Are we?