"AYIN"

"I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors." (Psalms 119:121)

 Moving from the law of God's crystal clear knowledge of our hearts, to the law of God's judgment, it is clear to see how faith and trust in God are the center between justice and oppression. Actually, when I say center, center does not mean that the scale is balanced, because God's justice outweighs all else; it's just that we must have the faith to believe it is so, and the courage to wait on the LORD! The very familiar and well quoted verse, "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint," takes on a whole new meaning when we measure the two factors, God's protection verses the attack of an enemy, any enemy! Don't tell me that you don't have enemies; because, if you are a follower of Jesus Christ, then you most certainly do! I'm just sayin! With the statement David is making here, one might get the notion that he is questioning God's protection, saying, "leave me not to mine oppressors." Basically, there is really no difference between what is being said here and what Jesus said in the sample prayer He taught His disciples; the prayer that many refer to as, The Lord's Prayer. I am not one that adheres to the 'Name It and Claim It' way of praying; but in the area of God's judgment, I am 110% in! There are some simple facts to prayer that we must always remember, first and foremost, that prayer is for our benefit, not God's! When we pray, we are not teaching God or giving God instruction; we are simply acknowledging that He is in control and reinforcing that fact within our own hearts. Actually, the Lord's prayer is found in John 17, where Jesus prayers for what is about to happen as He goes to the cross, and everything that will happen thereafter. Reading His prayer, you will understand that Jesus was not pleading with the Father, He was agreeing with the Father and acknowledging that the Father agreed with Him. This is very similar to what James, who happened to be know for being on his knees quite often, said about prayer being confident and in agreement with God, saying, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." The point that James is making requires that the petitioner be on the same page as God, which means he is seeking God's will, not his own! To put it in a way that makes better sense: If we have faith and trust that God will do all that He says, then this is nothing more than us saying, Thank You in advance, for something that God has already promised...

"For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell, in gloomy pits of darkness, whee they are being held until the day of judgment. And God did not spare the ancient world except for Noah and the seven others in his family. Noah warned the world of God's righteous judgment. So God protected Noah when he destroyed the world of ungodly people with a vast flood. Later, God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and turned them into heaps of ashes. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people. But God also rescued Lot out of Sodom because he was righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of the wicked people around him. Yes, Lot was a righteous man who was tormented in his soul by the wickedness he saw and heard day after day. So you see, the Lord knows how to rescue godly people from their trials, even while keeping the wicked under punishment until the day of final judgment." (2 Peter 2:4-9) NLT