Below are my thoughts from the daily
Bible reading of the West Side Church of Christ. Before reading I invite you to
pray and asked God to speak to you as you read his word. Also above in the tabs
is a link to the Bible reading plan.
As we venture through the Psalms and
Proverbs portion of our reading it will take on more of a devotional thought
and less of the passage teaching of the New Testament study.
At different times in life we develop conflict
with other people. From time to time it may be our spouse, or our children, or
a neighbor, or a co-worker, or another parent of a kid on our kids sports
teams. Sometimes that conflict will develop to a real deep level of bitterness
and possibly even to the point where an enemy is created. How do you handle
that in your life? Do you seek to ruin and bring problems to that person with
whom you have conflict with? Or do you turn it over to God?
David had a lot of enemies. Whether it
was his father-in-law Saul, or his own son Absolom David knew what it was like
to be despised. He lived a good chunk of His life on the run from these two men
and their supporters. Did he go on the defensive? When it was necessary. Did he
go on the offensive? When the time was right. What David mastered was letting
God lead. That meant that at times David did nothing and allowed God to bring
justice to both of these men. At other times David was patient and allowed God to
use him to bring justice to his problems.
Where do you stand? Do you take your
problems into your own hand, not relying on God to lead and guide? I think we
would be wise to read these Psalms again and see where David’s heart was toward
his enemies and learn from him.
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