"The Repeat"

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good." (Psalms 53:1) It's not that God needs to be repeated, because He has said in His word, that His word does not return void, but sometimes we need to hear things for multiple reasons. As I said, this Psalm is almost identical to Psalms 14, with a few exceptions, yet both are meant for different areas of need and for different applications in our lives. I can't tell you the number of times that I have been reading the Bible, when a Scripture that spoke one thing into my heart years ago regarding a certain matter, has spoken something entirely different on a completely different matter. God's word is meant to be applied to our lives, every single word of it! I know that we sometimes don't get that, and we surely don't practice that; but His word is meant for each and every one of us to read from Genesis to Revelation, and apply everything that we read to our lives, as if He is speaking directly into our heart; even the parts that we don't understand, we should treasure them up for when they are needed; even the genealogy Scriptures, as boring as they might appear, they have application to our lives, whether we realize it or not. It has been said, that the most hardened Atheist were once Christian; yet, if that were totally true, then they would have once known the truth and came to Christ, how could they then be separated from Him? Obviously there was something wrong with their conversion, and you can bet it wasn't God's doing; although, if their conversion was not sincere, then maybe God did not accept it; and if God did not accept it, maybe they never had His Spirit dwelling within them in the first place (1 John 4:13). It is really all God's doing when we come to Him: He calls us, He softens our heart, He speaks into that softened heart, He offers us His salvation, and He approves once we accept it; if we are genuine and have truly repented, then His stamp of approval is His Holy Spirit; if we are not genuine and remain in our sins, then we are fooling ourselves and living a lie (1 John 2:4); which sooner or later will be discovered, either by ourselves or someone else (1 John 2:19). The "fool" is really nothing more than the "wicked", meaning those that have not surrendered their lives to God. We all are in the same boat when it comes to being wicked, because everyone of us were born separated from God because of sin; the big difference is in the relationship that we have in Christ; if He knows us, then we are no longer considered wicked, if He does not know us, then we are a "fool"... "Therefore leaving the promise of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the Good Word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put Him to an open shame." (Hebrews 6:1-6)