THE BLESSED MAN

THE BLESSED MAN

The Blessed Man is the theme of a beautiful Psalm included in the Bible.  It describes two types of human beings – those who remain godly and those who become ungodly.  There is reward for the first type, but horrible punishment for the second type.

Currently the whole world is in the grip of a new virus called Corona, which  is an invisible enemy and also invincible so far.  No available drug or vaccine is effective enough to undo the damage which it can cause to the human body from head to foot.  Abundant personal immunity alone is capable of putting up some defence.  Till date millions of people have been affected by it and quite a few millions have already lost their lives. 

  Whereas there may be many other causes of the emergence of the Corona virus, the supreme one seems to be man’s disobedience of the laws of God. By his indifference to those laws he has converted this beautiful world into a hell.

It is in this context that the Psalm given below is absolutely relevant.

“BLESSED is the man that walketh not in the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.  

2. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his 

season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

 4. The ungodly are not so; but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

6. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”

5^th May 2020                                                              G. R. KANWAL