Spring is in the air, I can taste it. There may still be some cold days in February, but the worst of Winter should be over. In preparing for Spring I’ve ordered some trees, attempting to plant citrus trees this year. We live in the coldest grow zone citrus trees can apparently grow and I want to try my luck. Now that the oil change is done I can make plans to go green house shopping, some plants like the Hass avocado I got to pollinated the cold hardy avocado have to be indoors over Winter. Now podcast.
Psalm 5 is a morning prayer by David that asks God for guidance and deliverance.
Bible: Psalm 5
1 ”Give ear to my words” an invocation of the muses, asking to be heard.
4 “For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.” I come at this from the perspective that God is good by definition, the good. Saying the world is mind, believing our words and thoughts create the reality ahead of us, people will pray to the devil telling themselves some story about his beauty, but at the end of the day he rebelled against God. If the devil is their good, god must be their bad. Then the devil is themselves, they connect with that role of the fallen; understable. I don’t see myself in God, God is in me.
5 “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.” Iniquity being immoral or a conscious decision to go against God’s will. God is the head, there is no debate, you’re either with or against. I couldn’t conceive of a more foolish act than to go against the creator of the universe. It says they shall not stand in God’s sight, there is shame felt with iniquity. That’s why people will dull their senses with substances and avoid looking at the light that reveals all.
6 “Thou shalt destroy them that speak leasing: the Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man. Leasing here means lying. Someone will see God destroying as cruel, they have destroyed themselves. Turn into the light at anytime, freely, seek forgive and receive it.
7 ”multitude of thy mercy” is a nice rap and “in thy fear will I worship toward the holy temple” We covered in a previous psalm rejoice in fear and trembling. Note this worship is toward the holy temple, you’re not there yet and now is not the time to relax.
8 “make thy way straight before my face.” One interpretation could be asking God not to tempt him or asking to make things easy. This is also a good time to cover the acronym KISS, keep it simple stupid. Try not to over complicate and over burden yourself.
9 “For there is no faithfulness in their mouth” this is the mouths of the leasing liars. “Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongues.” Sepulchre means a place of burial or tomb, they’re already dead. Flatter with their tongues would be in line with lying, not only would they try to flatter God to get into heaven when Jesus knows you not. They would also try to win through flattery of men. It was said to me recently the wisdom of men is in vain.
10 “Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels;” like I said they destroy themselves, God doesn’t have to bring down a hammer, as soon as they turn their backs, they’re doomed. Falling by their own counsels is hubris of man, thinking their reason or science can save them or led them to light. “Cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.” Transgression means to go against God’s law, coming from the Latin verb transgredi, which means “to step across or beyond”. There are limits to man and when they rebel against God they have gone beyond that limit.
11 “Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them:” Put your trust in the lord, have faith, and be forever joyful. Don’t confuse this with a type of material happiness, happy because of the lord, not because of what the lord gives you. There’s also mention that he defendest them, you are taken care of.
12 “For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.” I wanted to draw a connection between compass and when verse 8 asks to make the way straight, always asking for help and protection, to be shielded.
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