Psalm 52
This Psalm of David was written when somebody ratted him out to his deranged father in Law, the king at the time, Saul.
This Psalm was written earlier than Psalm 51 when David himself was king, so why this order of the Psalms?
Perhaps it highlights a difference between somebody who repents and turns to God and somebody who is quite happy to ignore God?
Some people are not just wicked, they openly flaunt it and throw in the faces of those around them.
This Psalmist does not have much positive to say about their prospects - Surely God will bring out down to everlasting ruin, he will uproot you from the land of the living.
Note to self - let God sort out the wicked, he is far better (and more fair) than I am at it!
Those who see the hand of God working in this situation will see and respect God, though not the wicked person - "Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others"
The Righteous person is like an olive tree planted in the house of God and flourishing, trusting in God's unfailing love for all time.
It is good every now and then to follow the example of the last verse of this Psalm - look in your past and see what God has done for you, what do you have to be thankful for?
I mentioned before that one of the people who inspired me to write this blog is an agnostic Jewish guy called AJ Jacobs in his book "my year of living biblically", one thing he found was that he became more thankful as a person for trying to consider God.
This Psalm of David was written when somebody ratted him out to his deranged father in Law, the king at the time, Saul.
This Psalm was written earlier than Psalm 51 when David himself was king, so why this order of the Psalms?
Perhaps it highlights a difference between somebody who repents and turns to God and somebody who is quite happy to ignore God?
Some people are not just wicked, they openly flaunt it and throw in the faces of those around them.
This Psalmist does not have much positive to say about their prospects - Surely God will bring out down to everlasting ruin, he will uproot you from the land of the living.
Note to self - let God sort out the wicked, he is far better (and more fair) than I am at it!
Those who see the hand of God working in this situation will see and respect God, though not the wicked person - "Here now is the man who did not make God his stronghold but trusted in his great wealth and grew strong by destroying others"
The Righteous person is like an olive tree planted in the house of God and flourishing, trusting in God's unfailing love for all time.
It is good every now and then to follow the example of the last verse of this Psalm - look in your past and see what God has done for you, what do you have to be thankful for?
I mentioned before that one of the people who inspired me to write this blog is an agnostic Jewish guy called AJ Jacobs in his book "my year of living biblically", one thing he found was that he became more thankful as a person for trying to consider God.
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