"Shadow Boxing"

"Destroy Thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against Thee." (Psalms 5:10) By now you might have figured out that I am not following any commentary or popular teaching regarding this Psalm; I warned you that it might get weird, and that I was going to be speaking as I am spoken to! Again, let me say it for about the sixth time, this Psalm is about 'A Prayer for Protection'; and being that this is a prayer, we must also consider what it is that makes us not be protected or outside of God's protection. Okay; let me ask you this: Have you ever asked God to have His way in your life, at all cost? That is to say, 'God, have Your way in me, no matter what it cost; I surrender all!!!' First of all, the word "Destroy" that is given here is not the same "destroy" from verse six, which meant to destroy, as in destruction; but the destroy that David is talking about here in verse ten, is the one which speaks of making guilty, to fail in duty, or to become guilty. The other word to be considered is the word "fall", as in "let them fall"; which is a word that means prostrate, or to prostrate oneself, or to fall prostrate; however, it also means fail; and when speaking of "by their own counsels", it means to fail at their own devises or plans. And then, we have "cast them out", which means to thrust or drive away; and given that there is a multitude of transgressions, it could therefore mean, 'To Thrust Far Away!' But the one that really did it for me, was "rebelled", as in "for they have rebelled against Thee"; because in this, we really step outside of God's protection!!! This word "rebelled" means to be disobedient towards God, and any time that we are disobedient towards God, we have stepped outside of the shield of His protection! What this is, is willful disobedience; which speaks about knowing or being instructed on that which is right, yet doing or acting out that which is opposite of what God is telling us to do. A really good story that comes to mind is found in 1 Samuel 15, which is Saul's sin at Gilgal, where God tells Saul to go and destroy Amalek for what they had done to Israel; with very detailed instructions, God said, "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass". (1 Samuel 15:3) Yet, Saul did not do as the Lord instructed him, but he made a choice to go against God's word, by choosing the things which he felt were worthy of keeping, and destroying the things that he felt were worthy of destruction. "But Saul and the people spared Agag (the king of Amalek), and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly." (1 Samuel 15:9) You know this story, and "the bleating of the sheep in mine ears" part of this; but what I want to focus upon this second, is 1 Samuel 15:22-23, wherein Samuel tells Saul what he has done, and why that it is such a big deal in God's eyes: "And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, He hath also rejected thee from being king." Wow!!! "And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." (2 Corinthians 10:6) Sometimes we need to pull out all of the punches, as we fight those things that cause us to stumble; because, many of the demons that we have made, have our faces...