"Tangled Up In Gleam"

"From men which are Thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly Thou fillest with Thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes." (Psalms 17:14) By now it might be making sense, and you can see the spiritual application that is being made by "An Innocent Man's Prayer"; that is if you are seeing what I see in what David is putting forth, and even I have a difficult time seeing it clearly enough to put it into a constructive sentence. But maybe I should ask a couple of questions to get the brain juices flowing: like, How does the prince of darkness transform himself into an angel of light? or better yet; How does the devil get a man to turn on God? If you look up the word 'gleam', you will find that it means a glimmer of light; a brief flash or beam of light that lures us to accept something as good, yet it is a false light that is reflected off something else or is a brief light that is visible only through a crack in time. Does that help any, and are you seeing it yet? Okay then; How did the serpent get Eve to be drawn to the forbidden fruit? It was by saying, "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden". (Genesis 3:1) In saying this, he caused the woman to take her attention off of everything that God said she could eat, and to put her focus on that which He said she should not eat. Then, upon gazing at that which was forbidden, "she saw that it looked good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise". (Genesis 3:6) In other words, she felt as though God was a taker instead of a giver, because He had taken away from her the freedom to eat such a desirable fruit. Yet God clearly said, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die". (Genesis 2:16 & 17) Added to the blessing that God had given to eat freely of all that was in the garden, God gave a warning about one tree that was not to be eaten, because in that day in which it should be eaten there will be death. Seems pretty cut and dry; yet, the serpent tells Eve, "Thou shalt not surely die"; making it seem as though God was holding something back from her that she perceived to be something good. So then; the way that the prince of darkness transforms himself into an angel of light, is by putting forth an illusion that he has light to offer; and the way that he gets a man to turn on God, is by getting man to think that God is holding back something from him that he thinks is good. Therein is what I believe is the spiritual meaning of this verse that David is praying to God about; for it speaks about those men of the world who appear to have all the material desires that one could want; making their lives seem so desirable, and yet, if we do not have these things for ourselves, we feel that God is keeping them back from us; causing our hearts to be wanting, and making God out to be a taker and not a giver. This is how the enemy gets us to compromise and to follow after a gleam of light instead of the True Light. It is just a gleam of light that pulls us in, but it will shortly pass away; just a glimmer of light, that seems appealing to the eyes, and makes us want to have something that we feel is good for us, and that will satisfy a desire in our hearts. But, it is only a gleam of light, that will pass away much sooner than we think... "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man: but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures." (James 1:13-18)