Ps 37 4 Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD ;
trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes."
This Psalm is teaching that we are born in a world that is controlled by God. But the world system is geared toward work and action. So the world is a system where born into where men are born and become successful. This is a very simplistic view of the world. And when we have a simplistic view we are denying the realty of the turnover of man life to death as time goes on. So if you think about it this year we have new opportunities but every day we see someone that we knew that had passed on. So the question is since we see people prosper in this world is that the focus when we consider how much time is involved in becoming successful against the loss of the generation that is played before our eyes.
This is what the Psalmist is trying to get us to step back and think about in eternity and death. So we must begin to think about life in the passive sense. What do we think about when we rest, how a loss has nothing to do with our gains, and how we create anxiety in ourselves because we do not believe that being responsible is living as seeing that the passive is more important than the active.
The world system is geared toward working in order to create value and to create success. But in Gods world it is turned upside down. This is what is so hard for us to come to terms with. Because we think success is what we achieve in order to have a good reputation in this world. So we even make God like us. We say if we are not successful then it reflects upon God. So we are always using these terms of repentance, self denial , love, faithfulness in a wrestling relationship with God. In other words the Lordship of Christ is something that is like a carrot that we are chasing. And we never catch the carrot but in trying we are always moving toward that carrot.
This is the same philosophy that makes the movers and shakers in this world. We always like to say that the world is moved by type A personalities. But this Psalm is giving us the long and slow view of how God works. Have you ever heard that the wheels of heaven turn slowly while the wheels of earth are churning?
And the Psalmist is saying to us that the reality in this world and the reward and the punishment are not as it seems to be. The Psalms teach us that we are born into a world where God is the absolute ruler. So God does not act according to our system of justice. Gods justice is always absolute. Just place yourself in Gods shoes. Every minute someone dies and they are brought before Gods judgement. We start thinking like this then we are not so quick to look at the success of men in this short life. Because in our view each man seems to have control over his own life. But the truth is that every man is under the scrutiny of God. When we think about judgement in the eternal sense that time clock is moving awful fast.
The Psalmist is saying that the world and the descriptions of movers and shakers and the respect that they get are not real. This world is run by the absolute Lordship of God. God is describing that person who gets respect in this world as some one who is the object of judgement in the other world. Because in Gods view the world is one wicked man being born and then dying.
Our problem is that we do not believe that God is controlling the world by His predetermined choice. We are always looking at God as someone who is slowly getting control over the evil deeds of men and paying them back. We do not naturally believe that what the man does or how successful he is has no bearing on reality. You see our reality in this world is living in the confidence that God is in absolute control. Our problem is not that we succeed in this world but in going ahead of God, always wanting quick change and making fast judgements without first stepping back and viewing everything in light of Gods absolute control. So this is the struggle of understanding true religion. Man is forever looking at the world with the wrong glasses . He is always distressed and not understanding that God is always the same and never moves from His preordained choices.
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
5 Commit your way to the LORD ;
trust in him and he will do this:
6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.
7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
when they carry out their wicked schemes."
This Psalm is teaching that we are born in a world that is controlled by God. But the world system is geared toward work and action. So the world is a system where born into where men are born and become successful. This is a very simplistic view of the world. And when we have a simplistic view we are denying the realty of the turnover of man life to death as time goes on. So if you think about it this year we have new opportunities but every day we see someone that we knew that had passed on. So the question is since we see people prosper in this world is that the focus when we consider how much time is involved in becoming successful against the loss of the generation that is played before our eyes.
This is what the Psalmist is trying to get us to step back and think about in eternity and death. So we must begin to think about life in the passive sense. What do we think about when we rest, how a loss has nothing to do with our gains, and how we create anxiety in ourselves because we do not believe that being responsible is living as seeing that the passive is more important than the active.
The world system is geared toward working in order to create value and to create success. But in Gods world it is turned upside down. This is what is so hard for us to come to terms with. Because we think success is what we achieve in order to have a good reputation in this world. So we even make God like us. We say if we are not successful then it reflects upon God. So we are always using these terms of repentance, self denial , love, faithfulness in a wrestling relationship with God. In other words the Lordship of Christ is something that is like a carrot that we are chasing. And we never catch the carrot but in trying we are always moving toward that carrot.
This is the same philosophy that makes the movers and shakers in this world. We always like to say that the world is moved by type A personalities. But this Psalm is giving us the long and slow view of how God works. Have you ever heard that the wheels of heaven turn slowly while the wheels of earth are churning?
And the Psalmist is saying to us that the reality in this world and the reward and the punishment are not as it seems to be. The Psalms teach us that we are born into a world where God is the absolute ruler. So God does not act according to our system of justice. Gods justice is always absolute. Just place yourself in Gods shoes. Every minute someone dies and they are brought before Gods judgement. We start thinking like this then we are not so quick to look at the success of men in this short life. Because in our view each man seems to have control over his own life. But the truth is that every man is under the scrutiny of God. When we think about judgement in the eternal sense that time clock is moving awful fast.
The Psalmist is saying that the world and the descriptions of movers and shakers and the respect that they get are not real. This world is run by the absolute Lordship of God. God is describing that person who gets respect in this world as some one who is the object of judgement in the other world. Because in Gods view the world is one wicked man being born and then dying.
Our problem is that we do not believe that God is controlling the world by His predetermined choice. We are always looking at God as someone who is slowly getting control over the evil deeds of men and paying them back. We do not naturally believe that what the man does or how successful he is has no bearing on reality. You see our reality in this world is living in the confidence that God is in absolute control. Our problem is not that we succeed in this world but in going ahead of God, always wanting quick change and making fast judgements without first stepping back and viewing everything in light of Gods absolute control. So this is the struggle of understanding true religion. Man is forever looking at the world with the wrong glasses . He is always distressed and not understanding that God is always the same and never moves from His preordained choices.
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