"To Bless The LORD" -2

"It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me." (Psalms 18:47) The one thing about being conformed into the image of Jesus Christ is that we are brought into a closer relationship with the Father in the process. There is not anyone who is closer to the Father than the Son, for the Son came from and returned to the bosom of the Father, (John 1:18). To begin to understand what it is that God has chosen for our lives we must allow Him to conform us into the image that He has envisioned for us to be; a task that does not really require a whole lot of work, but one that is hard, because it requires us to surrender our lives completely over to His Son, Jesus Christ. Every time I think that I have surrendered all, I find more garbage hiding in my closets; and every time I think there is nothing more I must deal with, I get hit upon the head with something that will literally knock me to the ground. As David was writing this Psalm, there were many issues that were entering his mind and heart about the various trials of his life; of this I am very confident in assuming, because of the timeline of when it was written. He had written the first song that we see in 2 Samuel 22 after having sinned against God with Bethsheba, having gone through the revolt with Absalom, having dealt with the sins of Saul against the Gibeonites, and then finally having taken out the final giant of Gath by the hand of his nephew Jonathon; yet he had not yet taken the census. The point that I am trying to make is about God not being finished with us yet, and how we are always going to need conforming as long as we are dwelling in the broken world. Being that as it may, God had needed to deal with David's pride; which was brought out through David taking the census, and made apparent to David as soon as he had taken it, (2 Samuel 24:10). After having repented in his heart, David asked for God to take away the iniquity from him, for he had felt very bad for what he had done against God. If you know the story, then you know that many of the people of Israel died of pestilence because of the sin that David committed; to the tune of about seventy thousand men, and many more women and children. So, as we can see, even though our heart might say one thing, it is really harboring something else. Even though we may think that we have it all together, God will prove to us differently; because it is not for our glory that God conforms us into His image, but it is for His, that He would receive the Glory...