Thursday, August 24, 2017

Ps 10 1 Why, O LORD , do you stand far off?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?"
We are taught that if we do not take care of ourselves that we should not expect to get along in this world. But this Psalm is teaching us that God controls the health and success of mankind. You will find if you get old enough that you begin to sleep more and experience pain and susceptibility to be more dependent on others.
When we are a young we are strong and proficient in our occupation. But we are more susceptible to facing troubles as a result being married and having kids. So its easy for us to believe that we are strong enough to face our troubles and be success. But when we look around we see families being destroy, kids being abandon, elderly people being neglected, and our nation that is in great debt.
If you think about the history of nations that have failed you will find that the evolution and increase of evil follows the same kind of track. We must understand that there is no nation on earth that has gotten better. In other words if put the decline on graft you will find that the line is steadily going down until it no longer exist by Gods standards of law. We must begin to understand that we all are very weak and susceptible to being in culture that is turned upside down. We must begin to look at the real facts. We cannot keep following the promise that things will get better. We must stop believing that the carrot of the promise of good things to those who work hard that we are chasing ..that we are gonna catch.
We must understand that God turns nations upside down so that He exalts the weak. This Psalm is teaching that the man who is known as the go getter is the evil man that the Psalmist is describing in this Psalm. He is what we call the self made man. You hear the song" I did it my way" that is sung by Frank Sinatra is looked up as the way to advance in this world. But this Psalm is teaching that man in his natural desires uses Gods law for for his own benefit. The wicked self made man redefines Gods law.At some point in the history of a nation you find that the leaders are the self made men who abuse the weak and helpless. The Psalmist is teaching that we must be people who are weak in this world. He is exalting the weak not the strong.
The truth is that the elect are called by God to be depend upon God. In order for us to learn dependence we must fail in this world. We must be taken advantage of and face an insecure future and a lessening of our physical strength. You see the truth is that all of us are heading toward being dependent in our lives. Because everyone faces the problems of old age. We must understand in this world were we began to be successful we find that it begins to be turned upside down. We are all self deceived about how weak we are. And we do not naturally glory in our weakness.