Psalm 108-109

Imprecations. We need to understand that these texts are not given to us to give permission to us to seek the destruction of our enemies but rather instruction to us as to what we are to do with such strong feelings we will most certainly encounter at times in this life. An imprecation is a classification of Psalms where we speak of our feeling of deep hatred for another, our desires for their destruction. The only way we will ever be able to fulfill God's expectation that we love our enemies, as Jesus taught in the Sermon on The Mount in Matthew 5-7, is to take our feelings of anger and hatred to God. We give them to Him in prayer, prayers of imprecations, not because we hope to see them fulfilled, but rather to experience them being exchanged, hate for love, revenge for forgiveness, anger for mercy. We give Him the feelings we know do not belong in our hearts and He in turn gives us what belongs, the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:16-26).

Pastor Fred