"Gaining Diligence"

"For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause have they digged for my soul." (Psalms 35:7) If you really want to avoid falling into a trap, then you need to understand what a trap looks like; otherwise, you will not be prepared when you run across one, and your going to fall. To truly get the proper perspective on what we are called to be, we must know what it is we are not; in other words, you are not meant to sin, if indeed you have been delivered from your sins; therefore, technically, you are no longer a sinner. Although many Christians like to use the term, saying, "I am a sinner saved by grace"; which is absolutely true, however the sinner part has been removed, for now we are 'justified' by His grace, which means that we are 'made just as if we never sinned'. Twice David refers to "without cause" as he speaks of the trap being set for his soul; the whole thought of something that is done with effort, yet without cause, just does not make much sense; why would someone go through the trouble of setting a trap if they did not have a cause in doing so? Sometimes when we cannot find a good answer, it's always a good idea to go back to the beginning; the beginning being the time of creation. Jealousy is referred to the "green eyed monster", because it is green with envy; green refers to the way that it grows, meaning that it pretty much can take on a life of it's own. When we go back to the beginning, we find two examples of jealousy portrayed within the first four chapters of Genesis; the first of which was that of the devil, who disguised as a serpent, deceived Eve, and caused her to eat of the forbidden fruit; the second example is Cain, who being jealous of his brother Able, ended up taking his brothers life because the 'monster' took over. Both of these examples were performed "without cause"; although the perpetrators at the time felt justly caused to perform their acts, the acts were performed in vain, and brought no benefit to themselves. If you were to ask Saul, Why are you after David?, I am sure that he would give you a "cause" for doing so; mostly because he felt threatened by David's existence, and just the fact that David was alive was enough to give him "cause" to take him out. To try and make any sense of all this "cause" stuff, let me use Saul as the example of what not to be; because Saul is a very good example of a person who is holding onto sin; which is the "cause" of those of us that have been saved from sin, to keep on sinning... "And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door: and unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him." (Genesis 4:6 & 7)