17YHVH, do not let me be ashamed because I have called
on You. Let the wicked ones be ashamed. Let them be silent to Sheol. 18Let
lips of a lie be silenced, ones speaking upon righteous ones arrogance in pride
and contempt.
Wise
as serpents; harmless as doves. The more we know Jesus, the more kind and
gentle we become. “A bruised reed” He wouldn’t break, nor a “smoldering wick
put out.” “For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through Him should be saved.” To know Him is to more and more
wish for others’ salvation, not judgment.
On
the other hand, to know Him is to know the truth. To know Him is to see
wickedness for the murderous lying madness that it really is. To know Him is to
know it isn’t just a “difference of opinion” and “alternative views.” Evil is evil.
And
unfortunately the world is full of evil
people. To know Jesus, to truly love people, to love the truth, is to be very,
very deeply grieved by the evil. The Lord told the angel in Ezekiel 9:4: “Go
throughout the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who
grieve and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it.”
It’s
just life in the real world.
As
I sit here typing in the America of May 5, 2018, I have to say I find it
frankly unbearable to listen to and read the constant barrage of murderous,
lying scoundrels doing exactly what David speaks of here. I think in my own
heart, “… let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the grave. Let their
lying lips be silenced, for with pride and contempt they speak arrogantly
against the righteous.”
Boy
do they.
It
is almost a joke, if it weren’t so sad, to have Congress doing all these
investigations. Congress? Has there ever been a “more wretched hive of scum and
villainy?” You have a bunch of filthy lying scoundrels accusing and investigating
all the other filthy lying scoundrels. We finally have a president who actually
wants to be sensible and fix problems and what does that hive of scum and
villainy do? Investigate!!! Never mind that they do nothing. They always do nothing. The only thing they do well is
vote to themselves benefits. The most basic simple thing they ought to do is
balance a budget, but that of course is entirely impossible when their real
goal even for being in office is not to fix the system but rather to milk it.
We
have actors and actresses who can’t stay married telling the rest of the
country what is and isn’t right. We have liberal journalists who cruelly
destroy anyone who disagrees with them, while proclaiming themselves the champions
of free speech.
And
on and on I go. “… let the wicked be put to shame and lie silent in the grave. Let
their lying lips be silenced, …” I find myself at the same time wanting to pray
for these people’s salvation, knowing they are simply captives of their
murderous, lying father, then on the other hand, wanting to pray they would
somehow be exposed for their utter hypocrisy and lies.
I
guess I’m in good company. That’s how David felt.
Wise
as serpents; harmless as doves.
God
help us to love, even loving with our eyes open, seeing the evil, being grieved
by it, praying You’d somehow conquer it, yet never losing sight of the worth of
a single soul, even of the most evil people.
That
said, I do pray that their lying lips would be silenced. I do pray that, if
anyone is to be ashamed, it would be them, and that somehow, even in a very
wicked world, those who really are trying to do right “would shine like stars
in the firmament,” that He would “make their righteousness like the light and
their justice like the noonday sun.”
God
help us.
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