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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 3 of 5
Psalms 7:1-17
For us to understand the Psalms, and in particular not to be taken aback by some of the harsh statements about the wicked, there is one fact of which we must never lose sight: such statements are made by those believers who do not form part of the Church. The Psalms deal prophetically with the period which is to follow the rapture of the Church.
Certainly we can apply many of the verses to ourselves: for example, all the verses which express confidence (see v. 1), a sense of injustice (v. 9), praise (v. 17) and also many other sentiments. The present is not however the time to call upon God’s judgment, as happens in the Psalms (see v. 6). Our prayer as Christians is not "Destroy thou them, O God!" (Psalms 5:10), but in the school of our divine Example we learn to say, "Father, forgive them . . ." (Luke 23:34). On the other hand, when the day of grace has run its course, and when the Antichrist oppresses the feeble but faithful remnant, it will be in accordance with God’s mind to pray for the destruction of the wicked (Luke 18:7). For it is only in this way, and after the judgment of the ungodly, that the earthly kingdom of the Son of Man, of which we read in Psalms 8:1-9, must be established.
