Good morning!
Text: Genesis 18-20; Psalm 7
In today’s reading I was arrested by Psalm 7:10-11:
“My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.”
The first part – a picture of God as my shield, protecting me, brings me comfort and strength. I like that. But that last part – about Him feeling indignation every day – that needs a pause. It arrests. It seizes my thoughts. Our holy God feels indignation every single day. His indignation flows from his righteous judgment of sin… my sin… your sin…. our sin. Every day. I had to go dig into the meaning of the Hebrew translated “feels indignation”, and discovered that it means he is made angry and even expresses it in speech. He says that He is angry, denounces our sin, even curses it. The very idea that God gets mad enough to say it aloud every day amazes me, and it brings me up short. Do I feel anger over sin every day? Or, am I so used to the sin around me (and worse, the sin within me) that I just pass by it unimpressed. Am I like those city people who see the street crime as it begins and then look away and get on with the day while the victim is hurt or worse? I don’t like the idea of being irritated daily, but if I am going to see things the way he does, maybe I better reevaluate how I see sin. Do I hate it? He does.
in Him, Mike