"The Fool's Demise"

"There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them." (Psalms 53:5) No matter how you slice it, wickedness does not prevail; it does not prevail beyond the grave, and it will not prevail against God. I cannot image what it might feel like to be drawing close to death and to not know where you are going after you die; before I came to Christ, I was only in my early twenties, and death was not really a fear of mine in that time of my life. Now that I am rapidly approaching sixty, death is still not a fear, because I know that death is nothing more than a launching pad into the arms of Jesus, my Lord and Saviour. We have a powerful testimony at the time of our death, one that causes those that do not believe in God to think again; and those that see our hope, they are taken back to a point when hope was offered; as odd as that might sound, it is, I believe the actual meaning David was putting forth in the last portion of this verse. When those that despise God see the undeniable hope that is within us, and they truly realize that they do not have that kind of hope, then they instantly remember back to a time when they themselves were offered a chance for that hope, and they turned it down and mocked it. It's really not too late for them, yet they seldom will realize that there still is hope; mostly because they believe that God despises them for mocking His offer and that they lost their chance. The word "despised" basically means to reject or refuse; which is what God will do to those that reject His Son, He rejects them at that time of their judgment. Actually, the way Jesus explained it, we are all rejected already from birth anyways; so really, there is nothing more that we can do to be further rejected; really, our only option is to be saved from our rejection (John 3:17-18). The bottom line in all of this, is that we really never have lost the chance to choose, as long as we are still alive; but it just gets harder and harder to choose the longer we remain in darkness; and especially for those that might know a little something about the Light... "And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the Light, neither cometh to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." (John 3:19-21)