Nowadays in church, we often hear lukewarm messages being preached, which might go along lines of "God Loves Everybody!", "Just put your hope on the Lord and you will prosper!"

That's not quite 100% the truth. A wise man once said the holy spirit discerns the absolute truth from the almost true. Reading Psalms 1, we can understand clearly who God blesses - people who do not walk in the cousel of the wicked and delights himself in the Lord's law, which is evidenced by fruit bearing. To put our hope on the Lord, we must make sure we don't have unrepentant sin and that we walk on the Lord's path - meaning we have a close, personal relationship with God.