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Psalm 1 Author unknown. It contrasts the two ways of life and follows and agrees with the doctrine of Job's friends. It proclaims the holiness and happiness of a godly man, and the sinfulness and misery of a wicked man. This doctrine has existed sense the beginning of time the struggle between sin and grace, the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent.
The application to those who are saved by Grace is in the area of Sanctification. Sin in the life of the saved can only bring misery and the lost of the joy of their salvation but not their salvation. To those in this dispensation who are lost, their misery will come, if not in this world, after death.
Whoever organized these Psalms certainly had good reason to put this one first. Psalms are like prayers, they are used in worship and it is absolutely necessary for us to be "right with God" for our efforts to be meaningful to the Lord. Thus the message here in this first Psalm is make your peace with the Lord before you sing phrases to the Him or make supplications for His Grace.
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