Yes. And you can think just any ol' time you want too; and share your
thoughts.
The list has been especially quiet for a little while. So I assume that
people are doing Spring cleaning or out just enjoying the weather.
Vicki
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Dunse" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Psalms 5
> Isn't it something how the word makes one think? hehehee.
>
> Brad
>
>
>
> Vicki and The Rors wrote:
> >Good comments here Brad. Gave me food for thought. So often I glaze
over
> >passages like that as I think that maybe it doesn't exactly apply. But
you
> >certainly drew some good points here. Thanks for taking the time to
share.
> >
> >Vicki
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Brad Dunse" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 8:10 AM
> >Subject: Psalms 5
> >
> >
> > > Reading Psalms 5 this morning, and while reading I had to stop at two
> > > points. Starting the text at verse 8 it reads...
> > >
> > > O LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my foes; Make Your
way
> > > straight before me. There is nothing reliable in what they say; Their
> > > inward part is destruction itself. Their throat is an open grave;...
> > > This is point one which I stopped. David referred to his foe's throats
as
> > > open graves. Does that cut to the chase? It immediately rang of death,
at
> > > which at the bottom of a grave lies death, and in like manner Jesus
said
> > > out of the mouth spews the contents of the heart, the throat also
leads to
> > > a death, an open grave for a dead heart towards God. A very strange
but
> > > effective and concise statement.
> > >
> > > Reading on...
> > >
> > > They flatter with their tongue. Hold them guilty, O God; By their own
> > > devices let them fall! In the multitude of their transgressions thrust
> >them
> > > out, For they are rebellious against You.
> > >
> > > I began to think of our times of today, the wickedness that goes on,
and
> > > how sometimes when we hear of wicked vile acts, or have been the
> >recipient
> > > of wicked or wrongful acts by others, how we become angry, how we
become
> > > vengeful, and we conjure up a just deserving punishment according to
our
> > > own designs, yet take no action on that which we've conjured up for
them.
> > > And, while in the midst of my thinking on this type of thought
pattern,
> >and
> > > envisioning such times in my life and even the news I hear in the
media
> > > today, of people I do not even know, yet share their grief, I think
very
> > > much like David did above. I begin to think of what they deserve for
such
> > > wrongful doings. I wonder how someone could do such things to another
> >human
> > > being. I think of the selfishness that prevails and goes before them
in
> >all
> > > they are doing in these acts. The dismissal of other people's value in
> > > life, of life, or of it's joy and enjoyment. I find myself just like
> > > David, wishing for specific punishments, and I think how David and I
are
> > > alike in thought, until I look at and realize why I think why I think.
I
> > > project the punishment of these wicked people to satisfy my own just
> > > designs, to bring a semi-closure to these things that offend me
according
> > > to my values, but David... David's motivation was as he stated in his
> >last
> > > line of the comment... "For they are rebellious against You."
> > >
> > > How selfish I am even in glory of just punishment of those who work
> > > wickedness and inequities.
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> > >
> > > If you're not living where you are, you're not living at all
>
> Brad
>
> On the other hand, you have different fingers
>
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