Psalm 50/53/60/75; 2 Samuel 10/1 Chronicles 19/ Psalm 20

God's apparent lack of attentiveness, His seemingly unresponsiveness is the devil's deception of humanity...that God is unaware, unconcerned. The enemy of God and His creation preys on us a perception of a withdrawn God, manipulates our innate selfishness into expanding. What is so terribly sadistic about his scheme is that he knows it is a lie. He is not innocently misguided, on the contrary, he wants a multitude to suffer with him in the judgment he knows is inescapable. And in his evil nature, he takes pleasure in harm, in hurt, in destruction.

Truth must triumph over circumstances! We must immerse ourselves in Scripture throughout our lives so that when the enemy's lie comes in, tries to convince us that God isn't watching, that He isn't ever present, isn't conscious of our waywardness...these four Psalms flood our soul with truth and keeps our selfish nature in check and even more so, moving us forward in transformation.

When we turn to 2 Samuel 10 and 1 Chronicles 19, we find a great illustration in history for what is happening within us and in the spiritual realm in which we are all immersed. Hanun's leader's counsel is untrue. It leads Hanun to making a grave error. He is deceived into rejecting the one, King David, who comes in peace. So too the devil in working in conjunction with our selfish nature, attempts to convince us that The One who comes in peace cannot be trusted. Who are you believing?

When we choose well, when we allow the truth of Scripture to be our voice of influence, when we allow the emissary of The One, who is the Holy Spirit, to be the most dominant voice in the court of our soul, we will choose well and finally, Psalm 20 becomes our song!

Pastor Fred