Get Out of the Seat of the Scornful

Was reading Psalm 1 as part of my morning devotional, paying attention to the poetic part of the Psalm. As my Bible commentary says the Psalms were written in Hebrew poetry style. I noted that the first and last verses of the Psalm compare and contrast the redeemed and the unredeemed. I also found the warnings to the redeemed to not progress through the counsel of the ungodly (the ungodly world view as it were), stand in the path of sinners (kind of getting comfortable with or "dipping your toes" in sinful ways), nor sitting in the seat of the scornful. The last is where much of our world is today. Commentators are all over the place being scornful of others or ideas they don't like, unfortunately many in the Church have fallen into this in response to attacks from outside the church. I must confess that I have been there too, so I'm pointing the finger at myself when I say get out of the seat of the scornful. I'm not saying we shouldn't disagree or shouldn't push back at those who are trying to tear the church down. I suppose we should look to Nehemiah and Sanballat for an example of how to respond to those who are truly trying to tear the Church of Christ down. There is a non-scornful way to stand in the path of Godliness. More on that later.