(Matt, here's the what I managed to salvage from your "lost post". Only because I'm a computer genius, I was able to dig this up! ;) Feel free to finish what you were saying... - Robert)
Have you ever sat and thought about the wicked people of this world and said, "Is God going to do something about this?" This psalm lets us into the mind of an inspired writer and answers that question for us. Perhaps some of you (the nerds) have read the book "Congo" about the "myth" of the silver-back gorillas that protected this lost treasure in some jungle. Others of you (the cool people) just saw the movie. Well if you remember the movie the people attempting to find the lost treasure did not really believe in the gorilla myth thinking it was a hoax made up by the natives to keep outsiders away from the treasure. Well they were dead (just enjoy the pun) wrong. Just before entering this hidden city where the treasure was supposed to be, one of the translators translated some writings that were carved into the wall which said, "We are watching you!" I remember having chills during that scene.
The evil people of this world are very similar to the people looking for this lost treasure. They think this whole God, judgment thing is just a silly myth. vs. 5 says, "they hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, who can see them?" They are also wrong. God sees them. God is watching very closely because he knows "the inward heart and mind of a man are deep." Do you remember what the gorillas did to kill people in that story? I wont go into it but God shoots His arrows at these wicked people and brings their lives to ruin....(technical problems caused the middle part of the post to be lost)
This psalm is all about David's reflection on the judgment of the wicked who think God does not see them in what they are doing. My first inclination in reading this was "yeah God, Get those wicked people." After reading it twice I thought to myself, "wow I am pretty wicked myself. We should be careful because I don't think we should boast that the wicked receive punishment, because, it is God who judges some and not others based upon their response to Christ. It is all a matter of grace that God gives some wicked people and not all wicked people. So be careful. However, This psalm is reflecting on how the wicked live thinking that God does not see them when in reality God sees them very well.
Don't live like God doesn't see you.
Matt
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