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I’m enjoying
my slow study of Psalm 37. As I write out my thoughts to you each week, I find
that so many of the verses have such similar themes that it makes it a
challenge to write about them. I feel like I keep saying the same things. But
you know, it actually helps to keep reading and learning about the same things.
It helps the messages stick in my brain when I keep returning to them.
Fret not.
Evil people
won’t succeed forever.
Trust and
wait.
God has a
plan.
Trust and
wait.
Fret not.
Evil people
won’t succeed forever.
Really. They
won’t.
And now we
are back to that theme one more time in verses 14 and 15:
The wicked
draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay
those whose way is upright; their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows
shall be broken.
Yes, those with wicked intent
actually do more than intend. They start to carry out the plan. They
pull their sword out – not to show it, but to use it. They bend their bows with
the intent of following through all the way. And they’re not taking action to
protect anyone. They’re not coming to anyone’s defense or rescue. They’re after
those who haven’t done anything to them – or anything wrong at all.
But they aren’t going to succeed
forever. At some point, what they intend for someone else is going to come back
to hurt them. Their plans will be thwarted.
We may not know how or when, but
that isn’t ours TO know.
Maybe we just need the reminder
today?
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