The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, majestic, and full of splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him and what came to my heart and mind in Psalm 5:4,
"For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.... Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield."
In psalm 5 David observes two kinds of people: the "evil" and the "righteous". He doesn't mention any other kind of people because there exists no other kind. This is why the Scriptures are bent so much to teach us about the duality that exists in this life. "Good" and "evil", "sacred" and "profane", "clean" and "unclean", "righteous" and "unrighteous". God is teaching us we live a sinful existence in this life because of the reality of sin in our lives and that we need to be made righteous, we need to be made holy if we want to exist with him in the age to come.
We all come into this lost and fallen world as members of a lost and fallen race due to the sin of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. We are born into this life in a hopeless condition of sinfulness. We are the progeny of sinful mankind and we have all sinned ourselves, each and every one of us.
This is why our hope in Jesus Christ is so wonderful. In the darkness of this lost and fallen world, a light, piercing that darkness, entered in: Jesus Christ! He gave his life on that miserable cross to pay the penalty for our sins so that each of us who embrace him will share in his righteousness. That is an amazing hope we all have before us!
I am reminded of the words of David in Psalm 145:17-20, "The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy."
This is the astonishing and wonderful message of Christmas!
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
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"For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness; with you, evil people are not welcome.... Surely, Lord, you bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield."
In psalm 5 David observes two kinds of people: the "evil" and the "righteous". He doesn't mention any other kind of people because there exists no other kind. This is why the Scriptures are bent so much to teach us about the duality that exists in this life. "Good" and "evil", "sacred" and "profane", "clean" and "unclean", "righteous" and "unrighteous". God is teaching us we live a sinful existence in this life because of the reality of sin in our lives and that we need to be made righteous, we need to be made holy if we want to exist with him in the age to come.
We all come into this lost and fallen world as members of a lost and fallen race due to the sin of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. We are born into this life in a hopeless condition of sinfulness. We are the progeny of sinful mankind and we have all sinned ourselves, each and every one of us.
This is why our hope in Jesus Christ is so wonderful. In the darkness of this lost and fallen world, a light, piercing that darkness, entered in: Jesus Christ! He gave his life on that miserable cross to pay the penalty for our sins so that each of us who embrace him will share in his righteousness. That is an amazing hope we all have before us!
I am reminded of the words of David in Psalm 145:17-20, "The Lord is righteous in all his ways and faithful in all he does. The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them. The Lord watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy."
This is the astonishing and wonderful message of Christmas!
A blog with my ruminations over the years can be found here: http://worshipfortoday.blogspot.com/
Anything of the Lord capture your heart from Scripture today? Share what moved you about him from your Bible reading today. I'd love to hear from you!
If you have someone you would like to receive these ruminations, send me their email address. I'm happy to add them to the list. If you are receiving this and would like to be removed from the list, just reply and let me know..
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