Today, I am reading and commenting on  Psalms 82-89.

The psalmist challenges rulers by comparing them to gods who defend the unjust and favor the wicked.  He points out that God demands the opposite from rulers who wish His blessing.  A good government defends the weak and upholds the cause of the oppressed.  It rescues the weak and needy from the hand of the wicked.  As I read further, I felt like the psalmist was talking to the people of today, to those who today are seeking to destroy Israel as a nation and eliminate those whose ancestry might lead them to attempt to rebuild it.  The psalmist begs God to cover with shame those who seek the destruction of Israel and her people.  But here is where we see that our God is different.  The psalmist, as we should as well, seeks them to be covered in shame, not so that they will suffer, but so that they will seek the Lord.  Oh that God’s enemies would realize that being a servant in God’s house is more desirable than having access to all of the pleasures obtainable living among the wicked.  Let us join the psalmist in begging God to give us an undivided heart, a heart which seeks only the good which comes from obeying the Lord for those who persecute us, not vengeance for the suffering we, or others, have suffered at their hands.  The psalmist tells us that God will record people of all nations as acknowledging, as serving, Him.  Let us strive to seek to show them why they should do so by making His faithfulness known to all generations.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.