Providential Enmity

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Psalm 7

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WHAT INITIATES THIS?
Read Psalm 7:1-5, “1 O LORD my God, in you do I take refuge; save me from all my pursuers and deliver me, 2 lest like a lion they tear my soul apart, rending it in pieces, with none to deliver. 3 O LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is wrong in my hands, 4 if I have repaid my friend with evil or plundered my enemy without cause, 5 let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah.
What is it that causes and incites savagery against someone who is good and right? You would think that if everything were just normal, that someone who is good and who is doing good, would seem to just have normal functionings and interactions in this life and in this world. But here, we see that David is lamenting his situation again due to people, who are after him, who are incited against him. They threaten to tear him, to destroy him, and to end his cause. Possibly targeting his family, his persons of honor who serve him and possibly even to just end his life, and make him nothing.
But, the question here, is: What is it, that is causing such inciting hatred against David, if David, is truly seeking to do good? This is really something to think about!
We see this enmity, throughout the Psalm again. Somehow, and for some reasons, God permits, providentially, in his sovereignty, the enemies that David was facing and what he had to face to remain faithful to God. He had to face evil. He had to face opposition. He had to face unwarranted human wrath.
ENTRUSTING OURSELVES TO DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY
Read Psalm 7:6-11, “ 6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my enemies; awake for me; you have appointed a judgment. 7  Let the assembly of the peoples be gathered about you; over it return on high. 8 The LORD judges the peoples; judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and according to the integrity that is in me. 9 Oh, let the evil of the wicked come to an end, and may you establish the righteous— you who test the minds and hearts, O righteous God! 10  My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. 11  God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.
We see here, David entrusting himself to divine sovereignty. He humbles himself, unlike his enemies, and asks that God, would purge and purify him. David has a correct view of God, and that in difficulties, God is God, and uses them for the purpose of his promises to his people. David sought purification, and the outcome of clarity, and also sought that if he was in the wrong that he would also pay the penalty of being overrun by the enemy. In verses 3-5, it is like David is stating, “God, purge me. Provide for me, purification and vindication.”
Maybe, his enemies, were jumping to conclusions about him, like we saw last week in Psalm 6. And in jumping to conclusions, they for some reason, want to take David out, as they may be measures of the enemy's work, to play with David’s failures, or even perceived failures as a means to, in pride think they are bound to be the agent of God’s wrath. But this backwards and contradictory, blasphemous thinking, is what the devil is like. The condemned sinful entity, seeking to point out sin in others.
BACK ON THEIR OWN HEADS
Read Psalm 7:12-17, “12  If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword; he has bent and readied his bow; 13  he has prepared for him his deadly weapons, making his arrows fiery shafts. 14 Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies. 15 He makes a pit, digging it out, and falls into the hole that he has made. 16  His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends. 17 I will give to the LORD the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the LORD, the Most High.”
In the end, we may interpret this as being those who are seeking to accuse, are the ones judged in the end as punished and struck with God’s sword. The condemnation of the wicked here, in their seeking to usurp David, not knowing his situation, are judged by God for their own actions, against David!
If they repented, they would see that David is a good man. But the work they did, and the pit they dug, is what they stumble in and into. Their violence, is retracted, is thrown over David, like a net, but unable to harm him, for it’s intent, and it’s content.
A couple things we should remember here:
Even though God uses evil people and evil pagan nations, to judge his own people, if they deny him, it does not mean that God is blocked in, and forced to use sinners to and as a means to judge his people if they turn from him.
God can judge immediately the mind and heart and soul. But God uses many means, in this world, which he is in control of, so that he can gain glory in what he chooses and how he chooses to bless or to judge, or to vindicate.
David ends this Psalm again, in worship to God, for his vindication and deliverance. Praising God for his righteousness, and God’s divine, sovereign ability to cut the chase, and execute his purpose and act by righteousness, and equity. God does righteousness. So what God says, is the empirical truth of divine insight and omniscience about each entity in this Psalm
God Bless!
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