Blessed

“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked… but his delight is in the law of the Lord,” is in Psalm 1.  Likewise in Jeremiah: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man… Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord” (Jeremiah 17:5ff).  And Jesus tells the disciples something similar in Luke’s Gospel: “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! … Woe to you, when all people speak well of yo...