In Psalm 58 there is some amazing insight to God's attitude and actions towards those too quick in announcing their own personal righteousness(attained apart from the love of God's righteousness) but mute when it comes to righteous judgment (attained by ignoring God's love for sinners)... Very scary words like -
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: Let them melt away as waters let them be as cut in pieces. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away : like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. PRETTY SCARY!!!
What is even scarier is that these people blend into the congregation of the Righteous...you know? (The Saved, the Born Again, His Kids) ...these people are found right in the midst of the assembly of God's people. These "Mute" actually have a contagious affect on the congregation as a whole.
As I was reading this I actually stumbled over this verse like one with impaired vision without his glasses trying to walk through a room of blurry obstacles ...Oh I love it when God makes me think about eternal concepts....
Psalm 58:9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind , both living, and in His wrath. Here is a loose but devotional translation of this statement ... Before your large cooking pan can begin to sense the start up heat needed to prepare for a much needed meal --a tornado will come in and remove not only those who are under the firey wrath of God but those who have been revived also. QUESTION ... Without a meal we have what???? ..........hunger. Without meals for a long period of time we have ...........starvation. Nothing available to put in the pot may be evidence of a famine.
Sounds alot like the lives of individuals all across this land ...NOTHING IN POT, TRYING TO START THE FIRE ...a whirlwind of useless activitiy all around them carries away their much needed sustenance from Above. Before they are even aware of the Famine, they are right in the middle of it.
Amos 8:11 KJV
Behold, the days come , saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Are we in the midst of this famine?
Micah 6:8 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matthew 5:6 KJV
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled .
Don't go out like the mute assembly who shut their mouths when something is very wrong in the Kingdom.
HLFA,
Jeff
Micah 6:8 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Matthew 5:6 KJV
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled .
Don't go out like the mute assembly who shut their mouths when something is very wrong in the Kingdom.
HLFA,
Jeff