“Blessed are the undefiled in the way.”—Psalm 119:1
This 119th Psalm starts out with the word “blessed.” This word in the Word of God is worthy of our study. In a worldly sense, we associate it with the thought of a man whom we describe as “A lucky fellow,” “A fortunate man.” Some men seem to succeed in whatever they undertake, they have the ability to do things better than other men and the world calls them lucky. The Scripture, however, never speaks of a lucky man or a fortunate one, but it says much about a blessed man.
When Israel was leaving the wilderness with its sad defeats to enter upon the winning battles of the Promised Land, Joshua was ordered to make two monuments to signalize the crossing of the borderline at the Jordan.
The one monument was to be buried in the river, and the other conspicuously put up on the other side, so that, in days to come, when the children asked the fathers, “What mean ye by these stones?” (Joshua 4:6–7), they could say in reply, “The waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord.”
