Two Roads Diverged (Psalm 1)

FBC CTX Growing in Grace Podcast · Jan 30, 2025 · 29m

Have you ever heard Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken? It begins with this verse,

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth.”

Psalm 1 seems to stand in a similar location to where Robert Frost must have been standing when he wrote that famous poem. Like the poem suggests, the psalmist realizes as he ponders life that there are two diverging paths - a blessed man and a wicked man. One cannot travel both of these two roads at the same time because they…