Friday, December 5, 2014

"God's Judgment and Grace"

Psalms 52 [To the Chief Musician, Masehil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Obviously these Psalms are not in chronological order, but they do line up, it's just that the order is more fitted to the circle of life; and when I say circle of life, I am referring to our spiritual life, which requires renewal and refreshing day by day. And yes, the title above this Psalm in my Bible is, "God's Judgement and Grace". Although this event had taken place at least 25 years before the event which inspired the previous Psalm, it's not the timing of the event, but about the message within the Psalm. If you think about it, what David did to Uriah was monstrous; maybe even far worse than anything that Saul had done, even the events that followed this introduction. David had Uriah take his own death sentence back to the battlefield; a man who was counted among David's thirty most mighty men, and who was faithful to serve David with all of his might, was treated like a dog; not that Doeg means dog, but it did have a similar meaning in the eyes of David. And seeing that the is all about "God's Judgment and Grace", doesn't it make sense that this is a good followup to "A Prayer for Spiritual Cleansing"? I mean, think about it; if you have been forgiven of something so bad, what kind of reminder do you need about your position with God? You know what the enemy is going to say, he will tell you that God can never forgive you, and you likely will agree with him when he says it. Remember this, that God knows everything that we are going to do before we actually do it: which means, that God knew what David was going to do 25 to 30 years after He choose him to be king. Do you really think that God did not know? Our God is All Knowing, and He loves us, even though He knows what we are going to do, after we commit our lives to Him, He loves us just the same. That is what unconditional love actually means, it is not conditioned upon anything that the receiver of it has done, but is totally based upon the Giver's desire to love us. Why can't we see how much God loves us? Why can't we just realize who we are in Christ?
"But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace, in His kindness toward us, through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith: and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which He hath before ordained that we should walk in them." (Ephesians 2:4-10)  

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