I personally love this passage! I had to memorize it in High School. As many times as I recited it, however, I never focused on the words. It is a very blunt picture of the righteous and the wicked. My youth minister pointed out how there is progression of sin in verse 1. I feel like that is how I am with most sin... I walk by it observing what its all about, then a stick around to try it out, then eventually I am sitting in the middle of it... a part of it. Blessed is the man whose delight is in the Law of the Lord! This has become oh so relevant in my life this past year. God doesn't want us to sin, but I feel that He wants us to focus on HIm more! I find that when we make Christ our delight, our goal we are running towards, we tend not to trip up as often. Think about it though: If you are running from the bear, your focus is on the bear not necessarily what is in front of you... causing you to trip up on the misc. obstacles that litter your way. Plus your whole existence in that moment is based on fear. On the contrary, when we are chasing a desire, lets say a hurdler in currently in second place, the obstacles become quite visible because we are chasing something, not worried about running from anything, but to the goal ahead. Run to Christ and in turn you will outrun sin, because He already beat it!.

I understand a lot more can be taken from this chapter but God has really been putting the above on my heart lately!