Wednesday, January 30, 2019

The Miserable Lot of Today's Ungodly Compared to David - Ruminating in the Word of God

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 30:11-12,

"You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing your praises and not be silent. Lord my God, I will praise you forever."

It seems as though the public square these days is filled with pessimism, hostility, perceived wrongs clamoring for a "social justice" redress. You know the drill. A lot of bitter, unhappy folks these days with their thin skin, their truck load of "triggers", all feeling used and abused. Whiney wimps slogging about in the morass of their unfulfilled expectations, their mistaken notions of what is "fair" what is "just" what is expected that everyone else about them is to be held to account for. Unhappy people with unhappy lives looking to everyone else for reparations - demanding that the rest of us change our lives, change the language we use (you know - the politically correct speech we are all expected to adhere to), change our moral and ethical standards (its not nice not to embrace the transgenders, the homosexuals, don't you know). These unhappy people demand we accept the killing of babies, the subordination of our religious liberties in favor of their twisted and godless morality and the like.

The godless are simply a miserable and unhappy lot!

Compare them to David's outlook! David here clearly communicates what all of us believers have found to be the case. Here is what comes from someone embracing the Lord in faith. Look at what the Lord brings into a life that has aligned itself with our Creator! From wailing to dancing! From bereavement to joy! A celebration of life that only God can provide! So much so that David could simply not remain silent! "Lord my God, I will praise you forever."

A stark contrast, isn't it?!

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