Tuesday, March 29,
2022
There are a lot of moving parts to this Psalm…all
processing in the same direction, downward!
Note the movement and the sudden change:
· Fools ignore God and
God’s prior claim on our existence.
· God is watching, but
doesn’t prevent our corrupt choices.
· Evil turns abusive
and arrogantly destroys the lives of others.
· The result of it all
will be terror when God says “enough of this”!
· Those who have
trusted in God will rejoice at the outcome of it all.
One consistent thought that permeates this whole process
is that those who choose evil prefer so, and will never be content with worshipping
God. Their interest lies only in the temporary
self-gratifying conquest of what they can see and feel. Eternity is snubbed for a few fading perks.
Watching all this play out would be humorous if it were not
so tragic. It’s a little like watching
the bad guy in a “B-movie”. You know
that guy, the one with the black hat and thin mustache that’s curled-up at the
ends. He is always tying-up the
beautiful heroine on the railroad tracks.
He leaves her there with a sneer and laugh; her fate is sealed. But you know the plot. The good guy with the white hat, riding a
white stallion swoops in and saves the girl just before the train comes. Then there’s a fight and the bad guy loses…again.
Question
Was this just a poor beginning of Steven Spielberg’s
movie producing career? Or could it be Psalm
53 stuck in our DNA? Since the foundation
of time, space, and eternity, God has known what we’d be up to here on planet
earth. He’s told us in many ways, and
with every bit of creation’s majesty, to look to Him. All else is, as Solomon would write in Ecclesiastes, vanity. And the Psalmist would agree with Solomon,
evil leads to more evil; ignoring God leads to increasing ignorance. And those who choose this pathway do not
learn it’s painful lesson, nor do they care!
And, in the end, the judgment will be final, fatal, and fearsome.
For You Today
If you’re tempted to
question God’s (apparent) lack of intervening in history, and the pressing
injustices of current times, or even why the bad guy got the promotion, and you’re
still wondering how to pay this month’s grocery bill, remember that the time is
coming…in HIS time. And the freefall of
the soul is in God’s hands. So don’t do
so much questioning of God…lean more to trusting!
You chew on that as
you hit the Rocky Road; have a blessed day!
[1] Title image: Pixabay.com Unless noted, Scripture quoted from The New Living Translation©
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