Friday, September 7, 2018

day no. 14,564: a kind of prayer more often mumbled in private than sung in public: imprecatory

Psalm 109
There is a time to love and a time to hate. And it requires divine discernment to know when to pull the trigger and when to take a punch. The martyrs in Heaven sit on the edge of their seats waiting for their lives to be avenged. It is not wrong to long for justice and to yearn to see God's Name glorified by the saving of His elect and the judgment of the wicked. Yet all of God's children must remember that they too were once enemies. Those who are saved recognize what they have been saved from and also then must recognize what is coming for those who refuse to humble themselves. The more we understand what we deserve, the more we appreciate what we got instead and the more we recognize what is still due those who are begging for their wages paid in full by their unrepentant lives.

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