May 29 - Psalm 139:21-22
Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies.
It is so hard to love God when you are surrounded by wickedness. The psalmist wants the Lord to know that he is completely devoted to him and not to those who live in wickedness around him.
This is something we all want – we want the Lord to know that we love him and will choose him over the evil of the world. If God isn’t going to rid the earth of evildoers, we have to figure out how to live on the earth at the same time, yet not become like them.
The enemies of God were very apparent to the psalmist and if they hated God, he wanted nothing to do with them.
It’s pretty simple for us to say this is our reason for treating people who sin or live their lives differently than we do. We judge whether or not they hate God and as soon as we pass that judgment, we feel quite justified in our poor treatment of these people.
That’s not what the psalmist is doing here. He calls on God to pass judgment and is truly pledging his devotion to the Lord. Let’s wait until tomorrow to see what lies at the bottom of all this.
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