# Psalm 1 Bible study questions

> Two ways to live: the person who delights in God’s teaching is like a tree by water. The wicked are like chaff the wind blows away.

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/group-questions/psalm-1
10 questions for a small group or a leader. Read the chapter aloud first: https://www.lumin.faith/read/psalm/1.md

## Start here

1. Where is a place outdoors that makes you feel at peace?

## Look: what does it say?

2. What 3 things does the blessed person not do? (Psalm 1:1)
3. What does the blessed person delight in, and when? (Psalm 1:2)
4. What is the tree like, and what is chaff like? (Psalm 1:3-4)

## Understand: what does it mean?

5. Notice walk, stand, sit. What does that order suggest about how people drift? (Psalm 1:1)
6. What does it mean to ponder God’s law day and night? (Psalm 1:2)
7. Why does the psalm say the Lord knows the way of the righteous? (Psalm 1:6)

## Live it: what will we do?

8. Whose advice shapes you most? Is it leading you toward God or away? (Psalm 1:1)
9. What is one small way to keep Scripture in your mind through the day? (Psalm 1:2)
10. Where do you feel dry right now? What would it mean to put down roots by the water? (Psalm 1:3)

## Close in prayer

Ask God to make each person like a tree by streams of water.

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