May 19, 2026 - Psalm 1

Just a quick work on the first Psalm.  Two paths are laid out:  the path of righteousness and the path of wickedness.  The one brings blessing; the other leads to destruction.  “Lord, help us always to delight in your instruction, to meditate on your word regularly and, thus, to be planted deeply beside those streams of water that refresh and give life.”  These blessed ones have been found in every generation.  God has his people.  Just think of the gathering, one day, of these people of righteousness!

At the sounding of the trumpet, when the saints are gathered home,

We will greet each other by the crystal sea,

With the friends and all the loved ones there awaiting us to come,

What a gath’ring of the faithful that will be!

What a gath'ring, gath'ring,

At the sounding of the glorious jubilee!

What a gath’ring, gath’ring,

What a gath’ring of the faithful that will be!

When the angel of the Lord proclaim that time shall be no more,

We shall gather, and the saved and ransomed see;

Then to meet again together on the bright celestial shore,

What a gath’ring of the faithful that will be! [Chorus]

At the great and final Judgment, when the hidden comes to light,

When the Lord in all His glory we shall see;

At the bidding of our Savior, “Come, ye blessed to my right,”

What a gath’ring of the faithful that will be!   -- J. H. Kurzenknabe (1879)