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GOD’S WORD FORSAKEN IS HORRIFYING
LORD’S DAY, JANUARY 28
Psalm 119:53

Luke 19:41-44

 

“And when he was come near,
he beheld the city,

and wept over it…”

 

GOD’S WORD FORSAKEN IS HORRIFYING
 
Horrible news encompass us every day. Many who have gone through those frightening moments in their lives have more trauma than we who just read or watch the news. Their lives will not be the same again. They will be haunted by the thoughts of those terrible situations they were in. Just reading all these harrowing experiences is already terrifying!
 
The horrified: The psalmist is horrified. Horror is mixed with the emotion of righteous indignation. It is consuming him to see these terrible acts of men. It takes hold of him and he cannot shy away from this feeling. It bothers him and much more it affrights him. The reason is not so much of temporal and physical consequences, but eternal ones. The psalmist foresees the judgment that these people are up against. He knows well what will be the outcome of those acts which will surely earn God’s righteous punishment.
 
The horrifying: The psalmist describes this horror. It is about the wicked who forsakes the law of God. The wicked refers to a person who is bad and is condemned. But what makes him wicked? He forsakes the law of God. The idea of one who forsakes is he who leaves something. This may imply that this particular man who is now known as wicked, once held on to the promise of God. He relinquished his belief in God’s Word. He used to hold on to it but after a while, he loses the grasp and fails to hang on there to keep on believing.
 
Why is it horrifying? Paul had the same thoughts as the psalmist. Read Hebrews 6:4-6.
 
Dear reader, if you sense that you have forsaken God’s Word, please pray for the Holy Spirit to illumine your mind. Let not the Word depart from you. There is nothing more horrifying than to have tasted what should be heaven but finally be cast into the fire for eternity because you have departed from God’s Word.
 
THOUGHT: Have I forsaken God’s Word?
PRAYER: Father, try my thoughts and grant me discernment that I will not forsake Thy law.

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