Daily Devotionals
Daily Devotional: Psalms 21:8-13
Ps 21:8-13
Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you. You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them. You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man. Though they plan evil against you, though they devise mischief, they will not succeed. For you will put them to flight; you will aim at their faces with your bows. Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power.
Heb 10:28-31
Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? For we know Him who said, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge His people." It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
We all like to think and talk about the love of God. We meditate on his majesty, his wisdom, and his great power. We talk about his mercy and his grace. All of this is good and needs to be understood because it is a big part of God. But in his majesty and holiness lies his justice and justice requires punishment for sin. He is Supreme and any who would dare reject him or defy him deserves to die. Thus, the wages of sin is death, both physical death and spiritual, eternal death.
There is no such thing as an over emphasis of truth, any truth. But when we ignore or under emphasize any truth, there is the danger that we leave the wrong impression with those who hear us. God demands obedience with no exceptions.
To disobey God is to defy his authority and to proverbially spit in his face, or as the writer of Hebrews puts it, to trample under our feet the Son of God who died for us. So how can God be just and still forgive us of our sin? Paul says that when Jesus died with our sin on him, God is being just because our sin is being punished by his death. Since this is God’s idea, he is now both just and the justifier! Because of his great love and his infinite mercy, he extends his grace to us in Jesus Christ!
O Lord God, how majestic is your holy name! Thank you for providing a way of salvation for all who will come to you by faith in your Son! Thank you for washing away my sins when I surrendered in obedience and put on Christ in baptism. Help me obey you in all things, and to obey with a heart set on pleasing you to the very best of my ability, not a heart of fear or a feeling of coercion. Even when I have done my best, I still sin so I need your continued forgiveness. In Jesus name.
Robert
