Psalms 5:4
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.
In the Gospels, Satan reminds Yeshua (as if He’d forgotten) that the world had been given to him (Luke 4:6). Today, we don’t need to be reminded of this. All we have to do is look around us, watch the nightly news, and read the newspaper. Any intelligent person can discern what powers both East and West dominates lifestyles, politics and economics in. In light of such, it is a great comfort for us to know that God has no pleasure in the wickedness that pervades our times. What comfort we have is in the knowledge that whatever devilish powers raises to show its ugly head, whether in the world of politics or in our personal lives, God will not tolerate it.
For those prone to disobedience, for those taking pleasure in the purposes of Satan, the enemy of God, our verse today serves as a dreadful reminder of future judgment. For the obedient, there is no fear to be had, only the warm fuzzy feeling that we are in the care of the Almighty creator of heaven and earth, and that eventually, He does not allow wickedness to prevail.
Abba Father, one of these days, in Your Appointed Time and Season, in the Day that You have set aside for purging, every purpose and every tool that does not come from you will be eliminated and vanish away.
In the Gospels, Satan reminds Yeshua (as if He’d forgotten) that the world had been given to him (Luke 4:6). Today, we don’t need to be reminded of this. All we have to do is look around us, watch the nightly news, and read the newspaper. Any intelligent person can discern what powers both East and West dominates lifestyles, politics and economics in. In light of such, it is a great comfort for us to know that God has no pleasure in the wickedness that pervades our times. What comfort we have is in the knowledge that whatever devilish powers raises to show its ugly head, whether in the world of politics or in our personal lives, God will not tolerate it.
For those prone to disobedience, for those taking pleasure in the purposes of Satan, the enemy of God, our verse today serves as a dreadful reminder of future judgment. For the obedient, there is no fear to be had, only the warm fuzzy feeling that we are in the care of the Almighty creator of heaven and earth, and that eventually, He does not allow wickedness to prevail.
Abba Father, one of these days, in Your Appointed Time and Season, in the Day that You have set aside for purging, every purpose and every tool that does not come from you will be eliminated and vanish away.
Swords will be turned into plowshares; instrument of illusions and vanity will be destroyed.
Most of all, Satan will be stripped of his power to kill.
You will do all this because You do not take pleasure in wickedness.
Help me therefore, me, your child, not to dishonor you by taking pleasure in the wickedness around us, or allow it to dwell with us.
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