The Blessed Man Is Christ — And In Him, So Are You

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked… but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night” (Psalm 1 1:1–2).

What Is the Law of the LORD?

What is “the law of the LORD”? Not an abstract idea, but the revealed will of God—summarized in the Ten Commandments, requiring perfect, personal, perpetual obedience.

A Searching Examination

So consider these ten questions that summarize the Ten Commandments:

1. Have you loved God today with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind?

2. Have you trusted, desired, feared, delighted in, and rejoiced in God above every created thing?

3. Have you worshiped God only as He commands, or have you approached Him on your own terms?

4. Have you used God’s name, Word, worship, and truth with perfect reverence in thought, speech, and life?

5. Have you gladly received the Lord’s Day as God’s gift, or have you treated worship as an interruption?

6. Have you honored every authority God has placed over you with reverence, humility, prayer, and cheerful obedience?

7. Have you preserved the life of others with your thoughts, words, tone, patience, forgiveness, and love?

8. Have you been pure in body, mind, affections, eyes, words, imagination, and desires?

9. Have you protected your neighbor’s possessions, reputation, dignity, and good name as carefully as your own?

10. Have you been fully content with what God has given you, rejoicing in your neighbor’s blessing without envy, resentment, or comparison?

The Honest Answer

Do these questions characterize you? Are they your day-and-night delight and meditation? Day and night? We struggle to give even an hour—distracted, hurried, divided. If not—then who is the blessed man?

The Answer: The Obedient Son

Hebrews 10 gives us the answer.

When the Son comes into the world, He says, “A body you have prepared for me,” and then, “Behold, I have come… to do your will, O God.”

That is Psalm 1 in flesh and blood.

The eternal Son took a true human body, entered our world, stood under the law, and did what Adam did not do, what Israel did not do, and what we have never done.

He came to do the will of God- perfectly, personally and perpetually.

Jesus is the One whose delight never wavered, whose meditation never ceased, whose obedience was perfect and entire. He could say without hesitation, “I always do what pleases Him” (John 8:29), and even ask, “Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?” (John 8:46). Not just His actions, but His thoughts and motives were perfectly pure.

The blessed man of Psalm 1 is not us. It is Jesus Christ—the only One who fulfilled the law completely, for us and for our salvation.

In Him: Every Blessing

And Ephesians 1:3-14 opens this up for us with breathtaking clarity:

“Blessed be the God and Father… who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing… in Christ… just as He chose us in Him… In Him we have redemption through His blood… In Him also we have obtained an inheritance… In Him you also… were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.”

Do you see it?

All the blessing of the blessed Man becomes yours—in Him.

In Him:

His obedience becomes your righteousness.
His status becomes your standing.
His life becomes your life.

Once for All: The Finished Work

And Hebrews 10 drives the comfort all the way home:

“By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”

The same body prepared for obedience was offered once for all on the cross.

The Final Verdict

So your standing before God does not rise or fall on your meditation—but on His.
Your blessedness is not earned by your obedience—but given through His.
And the verdict over your life is not “try harder,” but “well pleased”—because you are in Him—because the Father’s own word over the Son, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased” (Matthew 3:17), now rests on you in Him.