His Delight is in the Law

Earlier this week, during family devotions, when we came to the prayer time, Jeremiah prayed for me as I preached, and he prayed that I would be loud. So, we'll see what happens, but just know that. Well, the text we just sang, Psalm 1, is also our sermon text for this morning. And Psalm 1 is most likely a familiar passage to you. I'm sure that many of you could sing probably three or four different versions of it. had to come up with them. But familiarity with the words of part of Scripture doesn't mean that we've actually plumbed the depths of them. And we are not going to be able to plumb all the depths of them today. But we are going to take a closer look at Psalm 1 and see what God has for us there. In this passage, what we learn about are the characteristics of the blessed or the happy man in contrast to the wicked man. We're going to see that there are two and only two lifestyles to choose from.

The righteous man who orients his life around his delight and his love in the law of God, and the wicked man whose lives are oriented around their own desires. This psalm also sort of pulls back the veil for us so that we can see the outcome of these two different orientations. The strength and stability of the happy man, the righteous man, versus the momentariness. The ephemerality, if that's a word, of the wicked man. So, the way we're going to look at this is there will be sort of four sections. I'm not going to specifically call them out. But if you're listening, you'll hear me transition through them. We're going to look at the happy man. That's sort of the first part of verse 1. And then what we're going to look at is what the happy man or the righteous man avoids. And then we're going to consider what the righteous man delights.

And at the end, we're going to very briefly, and you'll notice that each one of these is a verse in the psalm, we're going to very, very briefly consider the characteristics of the righteous man, the instability of the wicked man, the wicked man's judgments, and the end of the righteous and the wicked. Let's pray. Father God, we thank you for your word. We pray that you would give us the Holy Spirit, that he would be active in helping us to receive your word. and convicting us and helping us to be sanctified and to grow more in your likeness each day. We pray now that as I speak, that you would bless the words, that anything spoken amiss would be as chaff blown away, but that your word would take root in our hearts and grow and bear good fruit. In your holy son's name, amen. Please stand for the reading of God's word. How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked.

nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scoffers. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree, firmly planted by streams of water, which yield fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. And in whatever he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but they are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore, the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. This is the word of the Lord. You may be seated. You guys like secrets? I'll let you in on a secret. This is one of life's secrets. Wicked men are not apt. I know. I know you look at their Facebook accounts.

in their Instagrams, in their Snapchats, in their TikToks, whatever medium that you use to communicate with them or they use to communicate with you. And what you see and what they're telling you is that they are happy. Their pictures look, oh, so happy. But I'm going to tell you right now that there is an inverse correlation between the happiness that they portray on social media and the happiness. in their lives. Happy people express their joy to their friends and to the people that are around them in their lives. They don't have to live it on social media. And, you know, free of charge, but social media often will depress you because what you see are the lies that people are going to portray to you and what they want you to think their lives look like. And then you buy that and your life doesn't look like that. And so then you're unhappy. But the portrayal of happiness among the ungodly is not which is limited to social media. We see it portrayed in our books. How many self-help books, right? This wicked man was successful, and now you should read his book on why he's successful. It's portrayed in movies. It's portrayed in TV shows and podcasts. We see it in the people next to us who want to portray this. Generally, everyone wants others to think that they are happy, successful.

and that they have put together lives. And the people who are open about the fact that they aren't are often just trying to get your sympathy that you should feel bad because they have the right to have a happy life, and since it's not happy, you ought to feel sorry for them. But for some reason, everyone feels like they ought to be happy, and they spend their entire lives chasing after it. What this psalm teaches us is that happiness can only be found in one place. Happiness, the happy man, is the one who delights in the law of God. And that's where happiness comes from. John Calvin has this quote. It's a little bit long. I'm going to intersperse some of my own comments in it because some of the language is old. But he begins by saying, this is talking about Psalm 1, the psalmist's affirmation that they are blessed who have no fellowship with the ungodly is what the common feeling, an opinion of mankind will scarcely admit. What he's saying is we don't actually like what the psalmist is telling us. Because what the psalmist is saying is that the happy man doesn't abide the company of ungodly people. But of course, we're surrounded by ungodly people, and we don't really want to hear that. For while all men, this is Calvin again.

And what he's saying here is what the objection that all popped into probably everyone's head as soon as I said there's a secret. and it's that wicked are not happy, and you immediately think, but yes, I see wicked men that seem happy, right? Like they had a desire for money, power, wealth, whatever, and they pursued it, and they seem to have attained it. And so we think, well, of course they're happy. They said, I want that girl, and they went, and oh, they got the girl. I want money, and they became successful, and they got money. And so we think, well, maybe. Maybe they are actually happy or something because they saw they had these desires and they went after them. But what this psalm is telling us is that the happy man is the one who delights in the law of God. And so if the person is not delighting in the law of God, they're actually not happy. Calvin again. The prophet, on the contrary, here teaches that no man can be duly animated to the fear and service of God. We can't actually obey God.

And in the study of his law, until he is firmly persuaded that all the ungodly are miserable and that they do not withdraw from their company, they shall be involved in the same destruction as them. Have you ever thought that the reason you struggle with certain temptations and that you refuse to give them up is because you actually think that happiness will be found in fulfilling your perverse desire? more so than in the law of God or in obedience to God. In that moment, when the temptation is presented to you, you actually think, this might actually make me happy. And so, as long as you are convinced in your mind that that sin is what's going to actually bring you pleasure, actually going to make you happy, actually going to fulfill those desires, you'll choose the sin every time. And it's not until you become firmly persuaded.

that actually your sin will make you miserable and drive you away from God that you'll give your sin up. I mean, and I know this because I feel this, right? I can come home, I can sit in my black chair that leans back and the feet kick up, and I have a book that I need to read, I have my Bible, and I have my phone in my pocket. And immediately I have a choice. What am I going to go to? I know the Bible is going to be good for me. I know reading this book, which I'm under obligation to read, is going to be good for me. You know, scrolling on Facebook or just whatever, surfing the internet, sounds pretty appealing also, right? And unless we're convinced that what's actually good for us, that will actually give us delight and happiness is pursuing God, we're always going to pick up the phone. We're always going to pursue that sin. But the reason I bring up the phone,

The reason I bring up the phone is because we have a tendency probably to read this psalm and think of the gross sins, right? Like big, disgusting sins that, well, yeah, if I hang out with wicked people that are doing wicked things, that's what I'm going to be tempted to do. But I want you to think about it more simply. Think about what is the very first thing that you do in the morning when you wake up. What is it that you do on your lunch break? What do you do before you go to bed? Everything you do is a choice. Some things that you choose are necessity. Other things you choose because you feel like it. So you go to bed. You wake up in the morning. Uh-oh. You got up late. So you quick eat your food. You head to work. And you spent no time praying or reading. You slept. You didn't get up.

That was a choice. You could have gotten up and spent time praying and reading and preparing for the day. Maybe you decide you're so short on time you don't eat breakfast and it said you spent time reading, right? And we have all our excuses. Well, I would feel better if I slept. You know, I got to go to work and I need to have rest. What I'm trying to say is we have choices. On your lunch, maybe you scroll through your phone. You shoot the breeze with your coworkers. Maybe you take a nap. When you get home after work. You've worked hard. You need to relax. So you watch a TV show. You watch a movie. You get the point. We all have excuses about what we should do and why we don't do other things. But what we do and what we neglect to do is revelatory of our hearts and what we think will actually make us happy. We're so tired we couldn't actually read God's word.

What would actually help us relax and feel better is whatever it is that you do when you ought to read God's word and delight in it. It's impossible to be immersed in the law of God if we are immersed in the ways of the wicked. There are two different paths leading to two different destinations. Now, one more observation before we talk about all the negatives. This verse says, blessed is the man. Two things to note about that. One, it's a male inclusive, right? I'm going to be talking about blessed is the man. That means everyone in this room. We're talking about the race of Adam. If you are a descendant of Adam, then I'm talking to you. Also, this verse is for all of you. See, it doesn't say blessed is the pastor who takes delight in the word of God. It doesn't say blessed are the elders. Blessed are the extra spiritual and holy people.

who delight in the law of God. It just says blessed is the man. It's simple. There's two categories here. The distinction is between two people, the wicked person and the happy righteous person. So if you want to be happy, if you want to be blessed, if you want to be accounted one of the righteous, then these verses are for you. So what can we do to be blessed? How can we be a happy man? Well, the psalm begins with three negatives. given that blessed men do not do. Blessed men do not walk, stand, or sit with the wicked. And what we see in each one of these instances is that the individual is becoming more comfortable with the wicked. His relationship goes from passing by, just walking, to stopping and listening, to finally sitting and getting comfortable. And so the psalmist says, happy is the man.

And then he gives us these three negatives. These are the things that a blessed man, a happy man, ought to avoid. You may have heard the age-old adage, bad company corrupts good morals. And then you may look it up and realize it's not just an adage, it's actually 1 Corinthians 15.33, which had happened to me. Do not be deceived. Bad company corrupts good morals. Well, this is the case with wickedness. Sin is a contagion. And what I don't mean by saying sin is a contagion is not that you're born without it and then you get other people's sickness, but rather you are born with sin. And because of that, your flesh is opposed to you if you're a Christian. And when you are with other sinners, it brings it out. Satan, when he rebelled against God, did not just rebel alone.

Rather, he took a third of the angels of heaven with him. And Satan's children do the same. Think about someone who's on parole. If you go on parole, you have limitations placed on you by the court. They don't allow you to go certain places. They don't allow you to hang out with certain people. Why? Why would the court say you can't go to X, Y, or Z? And by the way, you aren't allowed to communicate knowingly with other felons. Well, because if you do criminal activities and you go and hang out with other criminals, chances are you're just going to go right back to what you were just being punished for. And it's the same with us, right? The more familiar you are with sin and the more comfortable you are with sin, the more you understand it, the closer you get to it, the more likely you are to just jump in and do it.

We all know, we've probably, I assume you've all met people like this. Maybe you've even noticed it with some of your children, right? But these people who are kind of like chameleons, and it's like you're talking with them, and then a couple other people come up to the conversation, or you meet them in a different context, and all of a sudden you're like, is that even the same person? Like their character, just who they are changes so drastically, the way they talk, the way they act, right? whoever is standing with them and talking to them. Well, sometimes it's really drastic. But often in our lives, it's a lot slower. We just make a new friend and a new acquaintance. You hang out with them, and they're a certain way. And the more you respect them, the more you like them, the more you desire them to respect you, the more you begin thinking like them, speaking like them, dressing like them, doing the things that they do. And so...

That's what these negatives are doing. It's saying, if you listen to the counsel of the wicked, you'll soon be thinking and speaking like them, and you'll be sitting with them before you know it. So he avoids the counsel of the wicked. He doesn't seek out the wicked's counsel. He doesn't orient his life around what the wicked suggests he should orient his life around. In other words, the righteous man... thinks, not like a godless man, but his thinking is actually, as we're going to see, informed by the law of God. So the question for you is, what informs your thinking? And there's a big obvious thing, right? Who do you go to for counsel when you have a problem? That's going to inform your thinking. But again, I want to simplify it a little bit because, okay, most of us here, I think, if you have an issue and you need to go for counsel, You're going to call up one of the elders. You're going to call up Pastor Dave. You're going to get counsel, right? But where is all the informal counsel that we're getting coming from? That's important. The question is, what influences how you think, what you're going to do, and how you're going to respond in any given situation? What influences the direction that you're heading as your family? What are your goals for your family?

The thing that's going to influence you most is the thing that you delight in and the thing that you give yourself to. So if you give yourself to social media, to movies, to TV shows, to games, to time spent with the ungodly, those things are the things that are going to influence your thinking. And guess what? If you drink from the ungodly fountains six days a week, as powerful as Sunday school is and Sunday morning worship, in small groups, in the fellowship, if that's all your spiritual diet consists of, you will be an anemic Christian. You will be weak your entire life. Because what you're doing is you're saying, I'm going to marinate in the wicked's counsel for six days a week. And you expect to fix that with four to six hours on a Sunday morning? It's not going to happen. The flavor you're going to have and the flavor of your life is going to reflect.

Be reflected by what you marinate in, by what influences you are constantly soaking into your mind, into your heart. Now, the next thing he says is that we are to not stand in the way of the sinners. This could be somewhat, the context makes it pretty clear what he's talking about, right? But in English, if we say to stand in the way of something, we think of it as in blocking or in opposition to. Obviously, this is not. what the psalmist is talking about, right? He's saying that the happy man, that the righteous man, does not go along with the wicked. It doesn't mean standing in the way as an opposition to them. Rather, it means to go along with them. And so, again, as we've been talking about, we see a progression, a closer unity between the man and the wicked. A righteous man not only refuses to listen to the counsel of the wicked, he definitely does not stop and join in with their wicked deeds. He continues right on by. This means that if you are a righteous man, how you act is going to be different than how a wicked man acts. And it's going to be different more so than just, I go to church on Sundays and he doesn't. If during the week, the things you watch, the things you listen to,

The things you read are indistinguishable from the ungodly. And the only thing that really distinguishes it is the fact that you go to church on Sunday morning. Like I said before, it's going to lead to a very immature Christian life because you're expecting to spend so little time for the good of your soul and have that overcome the fact that you spend all your other time on godless things. So if we are seeped in the counsel of the wicked, we're going to end up acting like the wicked. And remember, this passage is talking about us. Because we think, you know, as humans, we have this incredible capacity to think that we're unique. Like, we're the ones who can speed and not get caught. We're the ones who can whatever, you name it. We have all these different things, these different rules and laws or whatever that we...

think we can ignore because we're going to be the exception to the rule. And what I'm telling you is that you're not an exception to the rule. The happy man marinates in the law of God. The wicked marinates in the counsel of the ungodly. And if you marinate in the counsel of the ungodly, your life is going to look like the lives of the ungodly. You're not unique. You can't just say, well, I can watch this and be fine. I had, when I was in college, there was this, I was taking geography and planning, And there was a guy there who I became friends with. And then he started talking to me about Game of Thrones. And I told him, you shouldn't be watching that. There's all the sexuality in it. It's just the violence, the goriness of it, that you shouldn't be watching. And what he said boiled down to, I'm on a higher spiritual plane than you, and so that stuff doesn't affect me. I said, bull.

No, it does. You're not special. If you fill your heart with wicked things, it will produce wicked things. Do not sit in the seat of the scoffers. The final phrase of following the wicked is that there becomes no distinguishing mark at all between the man who is righteous and that. The more we flirt with wickedness, the more comfortable we become with wickedness. We see this in our own culture. Divorce is ubiquitous in the movies we watch. We don't even bat an eye. Homosexuality is becoming normal as well. I had a younger brother who was confused about the Christmas song when it says gay happy meetings. It doesn't even strike you as stupid and bizarre to have tiny women kicking ass in movies. The 200-pound-plus trained warriors, and this little tiny girl comes in and fights them, and it doesn't strike us as moronic.

Right? That's how much we buy into this crap that the world's feeding us. That we watch these movies and things, and we don't think, this is stupid. This has nothing to do with reality. Right? Because we're adopting this counsel of the wicked is just coming at us, and we're forgetting what it is to be a man and a woman, and that a 100-pound girl, no matter how highly trained she is, is not going to beat a 250-pound hunk of muscle. Ever. It's just stupid, right? But we get so much into, we have so many inputs of the ungodly who don't have the same goals as the righteous, who don't have it, who are searching for something. And if we feed at those wells, then our thinking is going to be shaped and conformed to what they are thinking. And then, why would we be surprised if the fruit of our lives looks no different than the fruit of their lives?

So the happy man, the blessed man, avoids all of that. He refuses to listen to the wicked counsel. He does not keep their company. But how? How can you discern whether you're going to walk in the way of the wicked and in their counsel? How can you tell if you're sitting with them? There's a proverb that says, I think it's a Chinese proverb, if you want to know what water is, don't ask a fish. The idea behind the proverb is that water is the sum and substance of the world in which the fish is immersed. And so the fish doesn't know anything else. So you say, what's water? And the fish says, huh? Right? Because that's all the fish knows. Our lives are much the same way. We live in a poor, fallen world. We have to fight against the world and the devil. And if that wasn't enough, We also have to fight against our own flesh. Your flesh is a traitor to you. It betrays you. It desires wicked things. It yearns to go down to the path of the wicked. And so, you know, I bring up these examples of movies and different things where it's like they don't even strike us anymore because we're so a part of our culture and it's just normalized. How can we have these things become not normal anymore?

How can we have our eyes opened so that we actually see what we're swimming through? It's verse 2. It's actually not complicated. His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night. What we need is for God to open our eyes and to give us a perspective that we cannot gain on our own. What we need is spiritual, heavenly wisdom, not earthy, demonic wisdom. And there is only one place where you will find that, and that is in the law of the Lord. Now, when this passage is referring to the law of God, it's referring to Scripture in its whole entirety. As Calvin says, all Scripture is either the law of God or the explanation of the law of God. And so if you want to be happy and you want to be able to discern right from wrong and you want to know the way of the wicked from the way of the ungodly, you must...

begin to take delight in the law of God and meditate on it day and night. The key distinction between the happy man and the wicked man is in how he approaches the law of God. Does he delight in it and savor it, meditating on it day and night, or does he hate it? So how do we delight in the law of the Lord? Everyone is seeking for something that will satisfy them. The ungodly seek in all the wrong places, but the blessed man... seeks for in the law of the Lord. Remember, the ungodly are not happy. There is no joy in their lives. There is not that blessing. I do wanna say that the desire and delight for the law of God is not something that you can just scrounge up. It is a gift. The wicked hate God, loving darkness, and they flee from him.

The love of God and his law isn't something that's just conjured up. But, but, if God has saved you, if you are a Christian, then God has begun to give you a taste for heavenly things. He's begun to open up your mind to begin to see a difference between the ungodly counsel and godly counsel. However, you can do one of two things. You can stifle it, or you can learn to embrace it and love it. At our house, our children have to clean their plates. And there are foods that they don't like. They still have to eat it. And if it's something like potato salad, that's not particularly a healthy thing or whatever, they have one small bite.

But guess how many of my kids have begun to like potato salad and they originally didn't like it? It's because they kept eating it. Not because they wanted to, but because I said, mom made potato salad, you're going to have a bite. And eventually their tastes conform to what they're being fed. So we will learn to delight in God's law by spending time with it. If you don't spend any time with the law of God, you aren't going to know how to delight in it. And you're going to crush the desire for it. But if you nurture that desire by spending time with it, you will begin to delight in it and take joy in it. First, here's a couple practical things. Pray. Understanding of the word of God comes through the Holy Spirit. He is the perfect interpreter of the words of God. And guess what?

One of the beautiful truths that the Reformation expounded was the perspicuity of Scripture, that as a believer, you have the Holy Spirit, which means you have the ability to open the Word of God and understand the words. You say, but it's hard. Yes, but Psalm 19.7 says, the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. He makes wise the simple. It's okay if you think you're stupid. Just read the Word of God. The Holy Spirit will give you understanding. So every time you go to open scripture, pray, seek understanding from the Holy Spirit. Of course, if you go from whatever you were doing on the internet and then sit down and try and open the word of God, it seems to be in another language. Prepare your heart to receive it. Read, and I mean actually read. You should be spending time in God's word as if your life depends on it because it does.

How, as fathers, can you expect to feed your family and teach your kids if you aren't fed by the word of God? You think of the mother bird who eats the fish and then digests it and then regurgitates it into the mouth of the young. If the bird doesn't eat the fish, there's nothing to regurgitate to feed the children. And if you, as fathers and mothers, do not spend time in the word of God, you'll not be able to feed your families. If you aspire to leadership in the church, you must know God's word. You will never have wisdom to give people if you have not seeped yourself in the word of God and gained his wisdom. Generally, it's better to read a print Bible and not a digital one because there's fewer distractions. If you're rocking your baby and you say, I should read the Bible, put your phone on airplane mode. Stop getting beeps and buzzes.

all these things, so you can't actually read for more than three verses and get distracted. You should also have a systematic way of working through the Bible. Otherwise, you're never going to read Zechariah, and you'll never know why God put that in the Bible. You should read through the Bible every year. Try. Have a systematic way that you're reading through. I think what's helpful is to have a way that you're reading through the whole Bible, but that's going to be more getting the flow of Scripture. Alongside of that, you should have a book or something that you're studying more deeply. But you should be doing both, learning how things fit together, the flow of Scripture. The idea is to have Scripture so ingrained in you that as Spurgeon said of Paul Bunyan, that if he got cut, he bled Scripture. That was how united his thinking was to Scripture, right? And that should be all of us. I encourage you to listen to the Bible as well. Get it into your heart and into your mind.

But don't just listen, also read. Because when you read, you read a verse and you don't understand it, and you can go back and reread the verse three times. It's a lot harder if you're listening. All right. Oh, man. Memorize, meditating on the word of God day and night. How can you be meditating on the law of God at night when you're falling asleep if you haven't memorized it, right? Like, you have to have something there, right? Memorizing will get the verse ingrained in your heart and mind. And you say, well, I'm no good at memorizing. I'm not very good either. I didn't say you had to memorize the whole Bible. I didn't say you had to memorize a verse a day. All I'm saying is memorize. Set the speed. Do more than you think you can, but work at it. And if you have a bad memory, that's fine. Memorize a verse, and then you forgot that one, and you started on the next one. That's fine. It's the word of God. It's going to do you good.

The next thing is meditate, right? He meditates. Well, what is meditating? Think about a cow. The cow has four stomachs. It eats its food. It swallows it. It coughs it back up. It chews on it some more. That's meditating. Take a verse or two and meditate on it for a day, for a week, for a month. Read it again and again. Think about what is God trying to communicate to you. In meditation, you're seeking to understand God's law. What is it teaching you about God? And what is it demanding of you? What is it teaching you about yourself? Ask these questions. And then the last one is talk about it, right? But I don't need to tell you this if you're doing all the other ones. If you're actually praying and memorizing and reading and meditating, then you're going to be talking about it because that's what's going to be on your mind. We talk about what we think about and what we care about. If I asked your coworkers or your wife or your husband,

what you cared about, what would they tell me? How would they judge what you cared about? Well, what they're gonna say is, well, he always talks about his sports team, the book he was reading, his favorite podcast, right? You talk about what you care about. And so anyone we ask when you say, what do you care about? They should say, well, he really cares about the word of God. It's like, he can't stop talking about that. He can't stop talking about his church and his pastors and his, right? Like that would indicate, That what we delight in, what we find our joy in, is the word of God. Well, you say to me, this is kind of overwhelming. What you're saying would take a lot of time and a lot of my energy. I might actually have to reprioritize things in my life. Yeah, that's what I'm telling you to do. You do need to reprioritize your life around the worship and the study of God. And I'm not apologetic about that at all. God made you.

You owe him your allegiance. This psalm is like Moses when he stood before the people of Israel and he says, see, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. Choose happiness, unhappiness. Easy? No. Uncomplicated? Yes. What I'm telling you is that when you fill yourself with the wicked things of this world, You're filling yourself with crap, with poison, and it's killing you. And when you fill yourself with wicked things, you will be miserable constantly. You'll be searching and never finding anything of substance. And that's how the passage ends, right? My parents, we ground wheat to make bread. My mom made bread. She would buy 50-pound bags of wheat kernels. We would grind it. She would make bread with the flour. One time, bought cheap wheat.

It was full of dirt and chaff. Chaff is this little husk that encases the kernels of wheat. So what we ended up doing on a moderately windy day is we had a bucket full of dirty wheat in an empty bucket. And we took that full bucket and you dumped it. And as the wind blew, all of a sudden you see all this dust and these little particles blowing away down the breeze. That's the wicked. Now you sit here and I sit here and we read the news and we're like, oh, the government, politics. They're so powerful. And God's evaluation is that if you delight in his word, you're a tree planted by streams of water that's bearing good fruit, that when adversity comes, you will stand. And those all-powerful governments, those wicked bosses, those people who you think have stability are chaff, which can't stand when the wind comes. It's blown away. Because guess what?

There's a tree planted by rivers of water, but that tree didn't plant itself. Who was the planter of the tree? It was God. He knows the way of the righteous. And so when he comes and he judges, he knows his people, and they will stand. And so if you're seeking for joy, if you're seeking for stability, that's going to be found in pursuing God and rejecting the counsel of the wicked. So read, memorize, meditate on the scripture. See if it doesn't make you happy. And if you take delight in God's law, I will tell you, your children will too, they will do what you do. Let's pray.