God Shall Scatter His Enemies

 

Psalm 68:1-10

 

July 2, 2022

God Shall Scatter His Enemies

God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered, and those who hate him shall flee before him!  As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!  But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!  Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him!   Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.   God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.  O God, when you went out before your people when you marched through the wilderness, Selah the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain, before God, the One of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.  Rain in abundance, O God, you shed abroad; you restored your inheritance as it languished; your flock found a dwelling in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.

 

As I often said my dad was a man who studied history, and he came up with this understanding, that we learn nothing from history, for if we did, it would not be repeated.  Have you noticed by the study of the Scriptures that evil men in the role of leadership have little or no regard for the under-resource in our nations?  In our nation they steal the most important aspect of a person; dignity, the dictionary has this to say about dignity; “the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect: a man of dignity and unbending principle | the dignity of labor.”  When evil men in government give our crumbs but take away a person's ability to provide for those dependent on them, that is evil.  If they care they would encourage work and small businesses would not be taxed and regulated to the point of not being able to hire those willing to work.

 

The evil politicians and men who are pulling their strings always hurt those with the greatest need, such as widows and the fatherless.  But God is a “Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation.”  The first part of this Psalm states,  “God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered, and those who hate him shall flee before him!  As smoke is driven away, so you shall drive them away; as wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God!”

 

What about the Church, that is you and I, has God told us to provide for those in need, especially widows and the fatherless.  Do you understand that 50 percent of Christian couples will not keep the vowel they have made to one another, or before God and those witnesses, and yet they bring children into the world? I believe that is why the Scripture makes a difference between the younger widow and the older one who will not remarry.  One wonders why the number of marriages that have ended in divorce in the Church has become the same as the unchurched and the answer is found in the churches having the same value system as the unchurched.

 

From the Back Porch,

 

Bob Rice