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The godly will be blessed by everyone except for the wicked who will say one thing (something good), but do another(something evil and violent). People will have fond memories of the godly, but will only remember the wicked in order to curse them once more.
The psalmist reminds us that the godly teach right from wrong. The thing about this is that in order to teach right from wrong you need to know right from wrong and in order to know right from wrong you need to believe that there is a right and wrong. I will put my hope in the Lord and He will show me right from wrong. Then, perhaps one day, I will be able to teach that to someone else.
Yesterday I talked about the seeds in the parable of the sower. There I talked about how we do not know what tools God may use to break up the hard ground of someone’s heart. Today’s passage talks about how a farmer scatters seed and the seed grows without any further intervention from the farmer. The farmer does not need to understand how the seed sprouts and turns into a plant. It will do it whether he understands or not. In the same way, we do not need to understand how the Holy Spirit will use the “seed” of the Gospel message we shared with someone to change their hearts. Let us scatter the seed of the Gospel message to all around us, praying for the Spirit to nourish that seed and cause it to grow.
On the very day when Aaron was ordained priest, and his sons along with him, two of his sons were killed for their failure to closely keep God’s commands. It is hard to imagine how difficult that must have been for Aaron. I struggle with finding meaning in this passage, but there is one thing that does come through clear. When the Bible talks about fearing God, it is not being figurative. We should fear God such that we are hesitant to do anything which we think might displease Him.