I totally sucked this month with the whole blogging thing. I think i managed to conger up a couple of days where I had free time to write about what I have been learning in my time with God. What a sorry excuse anything that I could come up with would be. It is ridiculous really. I should be on here as much as i was last month and that is really not too much to ask. I almost didnt even write tonight but I just felt pretty embarrASSed.
Anyways, I have been trekking through the book of Psalms slowly but surely. I have been consistently been reading everyday and most of the time it has been a pure desire to read. This book that once scared me for some mystical reason has unsurprisingly been a charm to work through. Now i say that but the truth is that i am only on chapter two but reading it over and over again has convinced me that God did not intend it to be scary for me. The second chapter of Psalms some what humors me. I will explain what i mean.
The first part of the chapter when looking closely at it from a whole picture point of view is like a parent catching a kid do something bad or even embarrassing. Its like when you walk in on your child doing something he is not suppose to and he doesnt even know you are there. Its even funnier if you and a friend catch someone cuz then you can talk about it and they have no clue you are watching their every move. It is the greatest and thats what i see happening with God and the nations. They are doing what ever they want to do.
Psalms 2:1-4
1 Why do the nations conspire<sup class="footnote" style="line-height: 0.5em;" value="[a]\”>[a]
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth rise up
and the rulers band together
against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
3 “Let us break their chains
and throw off their shackles.”
the Lord scoffs at them.
My favorite part of that section is when it says \”the One enthroned in heaven laughs\” now this is not like a funny, you told me a joke, laugh. This is like, you just spilled wine on my new white shirt, laugh. The laugh that is just covering up the extreme anger that i am harboring right now.
Then comes that confronting part. Its that favorite moment of a parent or a leader or anyone that has caught someone doing something they arent suppose to. The moment of confrontation. The look on the childs face is priceless as they turn with fear in their eyes, trying to hold back the pee that wants to escape from there bodies. Maybe i am just weird but i get a rush out of catching kids doing stuff that i told them not to just for that reaction. I dont think God does tho. I think he just gets pissed and here is that moment of confrontation.
Psalms 2:5-12
and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,
6 “I have installed my king
on Zion, my holy mountain.”
today I have become your father.
8 Ask me,
and I will make the nations your inheritance,
the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You will break them with a rod of iron<sup class="footnote" style="line-height: 0.5em;" value="[b]\”>[b];
you will dash them to pieces like pottery.”
be warned, you rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the LORD with fear
and celebrate his rule with trembling.
12 Kiss his son, or he will be angry
and your way will lead to your destruction,
for his wrath can flare up in a moment.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.
He just goes off. Like a father that over reacts. But this is no over reaction. God deserves to be this pissed. There is no doubt about it. He is not a happy camper. I dont want to be caught with my pants down ever. I want to act in a way that represents the utmost display of integrity. God is worth that and he has proven it so many times. Help me to make even more of an effort not to live the double life. Help there not to be the secret life and the public. Let me have one true life of integrity.
Nos & Rehtaf, Dnabsuh 