Lesson One: Prelude to a Biblical Worldview

“Psalm 1 & Psalm 2 form a funnel for the book of Psalms.” Eugene Peterson

Who is in charge here?

Psalm 1 opens the door to the rest of the psalms. The psalmist magnifies the importance of “the law”––God’s Law––as His law and authority encompass the entire Bible. Here, the psalmist contrasts righteousness and wickedness, showing the importance of choosing to meditate on God’s Word.

Spiritual growth and fruitfulness result from righteousness in God’s sight. Emptiness and destruction await the wicked. Psalm 2 opens windows to view the entire world––a world that as far as you and I can see ignores God and dismisses His Word. The culture opposes God. The culture promotes anti-God philosophy. The culture makes promises it cannot keep. Psalm 5 shows the psalmist’s struggle to make sense of what the Bible reveals is true of God’s character while finding himself living in a world of contradictions, defiance, and unbelief. While observing how he sees the wicked live without God, he tells God, I don’t want to live like that. Choose a better path. The spiritual battle between righteousness and wickedness

You don’t need to be fearless to reach your goals, you just need to be willing. Willing to try, willing to learn, and willing to believe that you’re capable of more than you know. The road may not always be smooth, but growth rarely is. What matters most is that you keep going, keep learning, and keep believing in the version of yourself you’re becoming.