God is loving, God is faithful, God is righteous, God is wise and God saves!
Psalm 36:1-6
To the choirmaster. Of
David, the servant of the Lord.
1 Transgression speaks to
the wicked
deep in his heart;
there is no fear of God
before his eyes.
2 For he flatters
himself in his own eyes
that his iniquity cannot
be found out and hated.
3 The words of his
mouth are trouble and deceit;
he has ceased to act
wisely and do good.
4 He plots trouble
while on his bed;
he sets himself in a
way that is not good;
he does not reject evil.
This psalm is written by David,
the servant of the Lord. His implication, with the title of servant, is that he
is submitted to God, willing to do obey and serve faithfully. What a contrast
to the description of God’s enemies in the first four verses!
The heart of the wicked is
evil, and he has no respect or fear of God. He has no ability to even evaluate
himself correctly. His heart is inclined to evil, and so his words and actions
manifest themselves according to what he treasures in his heart. He desires
evil, he schemes evil and he invites evil.
Dear friend, do you find
yourself being frustrated and upset with the evil around you? Although the world
believes that men are fundamentally good, or that their evil actions are only
the consequences of an evil environment, God explains man’s behavior very
differently:
Ephesians 2:1-3
1 And you were dead
in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—3 among
whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind,
and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
The Bible describes men
without God in these verses in three ways:
1 – They follow the
actions of other sinners
2 – They follow the
direction of the devil
3 – They follow their own
desires
What can we expect, when
we live in a society where we are surrounded by this? But, before you feel any
arrogance toward them, remember what Paul says: we walked the same way, before
we were transformed by God.
Man was evil at the times
of David, at the times of the Apostle Paul, and still continues to live
according to his nature today.
Are we victims of our
society? Is evil going to overwhelm us? CERTAINLY NOT!
Psalm 36:5-6
Your steadfast love,
O Lord, extends to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the
clouds.
6 Your righteousness
is like the mountains of God;
your judgments are like
the great deep;
man and beast
you save, O Lord.
God is loving, God is faithful, God is righteous,
God is wise and God saves!
God’s love is everlasting.
He loved us when we were unlovable, when we lived each day as described by Paul,
with no inclination to do good. His love will never change or ever diminish;
God can only love perfectly.
God is faithful. We are
and will be unfaithful, but God will always remain true to His word. We never
need to fear that God will change His mind about us.
God is righteous; He
cannot do or desire evil. He is just, and His justice will prevail. God will
never be overwhelmed by the evil of man.
God is wise; His purposes
are always perfect. He is always in total control. Although it might seem to us
that man’s evil is controlling the events on earth, God’s purposes will always
prevail.
Our God saves! We have the
privilege to know and enjoy a relationship with God, Himself! We know our
eternal destiny. We never could have saved ourselves and we cannot keep
ourselves saved, for both are His sovereign gifts. What security we enjoy,
knowing that God loves us perfectly, His actions towards us are perfectly wise,
and He is perfectly righteous in His character and plans.
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