Psalm 1, Differently

Psalm 1, turned inside out by Ray Ortlund:

Blessed is the man
who doesn't stick his neck out,
doesn't think for himself,
doesn't revere anything.
But he laughs on cue
while watching TV day and night.
He is like everybody else.
In all that he does, he gets by.
The believers are not so,
they don't move with the times.
Therefore, the believers will not stand
in the court of human approval,
nor Christians at the best parties in town.
For who's to say what is right,
and doesn't everybody go to heaven?

You may remember the original Psalm 1:

1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.