Conclusion

 

 

                The blessed person meditates on the word of God day and night.  His delight is to hear His loving words in the morning.  Therefore, he waits for the word of the Lord and runs toward it.  And he obeys the word, walks the path of the righteous, and doesn’t tremble and sin.  He puts the word of God in his heart, so he doesn’t sin and purifies his conduct.  He wins the spiritual battle with the word of God.  Therefore, he takes God's word as 'my possession'.  The blessed person is a person who does the word of God.

 

The blessed person doesn’t trust in humans despite any persecution and adversity, but only in the Lord, as he looks to Him alone.  He quietly looks to God when no one can help him in a fearful situation.  He leaves his burden to Him.  And he cries out to the God of salvation who delivers him.  He gives an urgent prayer to God, ‘God, help me quickly.’  He confesses, “But I am in prayer,” and humbly offers his wish to the Lord.  Then he devotes himself to prayer, saying, “I will awaken the dawn.”  He does that because he always hopes in the Lord.  The reason is because he believes that God will listen and answer his prayers.  Therefore, he determines, “But I am in prayer”.  He who is blessed by God, who realizes God's great love through the assurance of answering prayers, and who receive God’s great grace even in the midst of his great sins, devotes his life to prayers.

 

                The blessed person gives thanks to the Lord with all his heart.  He gives thanks to God who cannot refuse the desires of his heart, but listens to the prayers of the humble one and delivers him and gives him the grace of salvation.  He also give thanks to the Lord for raising his head and rewarding him according to his righteousness.  He gives thanks to God for giving him strength and power.  The reason he is so grateful to the Lord is because of His eternal love.  He knows the Lord's thoughts toward him are countless.  He gives thanks to God because the Lord makes sufferings profitable to him, strengths him even in weakness and sustains him in troubles.  Such a blessed person who gives thanks to the Lord not only does not forget all His benefits, but cannot  do so.  Therefore he makes this confession to the Lord: “"I love You, O LORD, my strength.”

 

                The blessed person makes God his greatest joy. For him, God is “my exceeding joy.”  He dwells in God's presence, communing with the God of his exceeding joy.  And he is satisfied with Him alone and rejoices in Him because the Lord has placed him as head.  The blessed person gives thanks to the Lord because of His eternal love, because of His countless thoughts toward him, because He rejoices in his prosperity, because He establishes his way, because He strengthens him and because He will guide him until death.  Therefore, he praises God with thanksgiving in his heart.  He is wholeheartedly grateful to God and dedicated to praise Him forever.  The blessed person praises God until he has breath.