God Judges

          I have always believed that everyone has a chance to accept God in his or her life, but in Psalm 58 David talks very harshly against the wicked.  He states that they are that way from birth, giving us the impression that there is no good in them.

Psalm 58:3 Even from birth the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.

          The thing is that we cannot rightfully judge who these people are.  True by a person’s action we can discern what they are like, but we have no idea what God’s plan is for them.  If that were the case then we would have judged Saul long before he became Paul and one of the greatest instruments of God after Jesus.  So we should not judge as this passage starts out.

Psalm 58:1 Do you rulers indeed speak justly?
Do you judge people with equity?

Psalm 58:2 No, in your heart you devise injustice,
and your hands mete out violence on the earth.

          We need to be careful how we look at people.  True there will be those that are bent on doing evil in this world.  There will be those that we feel we can help and show them the light that for a time will accept, but will go right back to the sinful life they so enjoy.  All we can do is help these people by showing them the love and Word of God, but it is God that is in control of everything and we must leave it to Him and trust in His ways.

          So if you ever feel that the wicked people of this world are getting one up on you and that God is not watching over you or that things are just unfair remember the last few verses of this passage.

Psalm 58:10 The righteous will be glad when they are avenged,
when they dip their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Psalm 58:11 Then people will say,
"Surely the righteous still are rewarded;
surely there is a God who judges the earth."

          OK kind of graphic here, but you get the idea that God will judge and God will avenge our travesties and that it is not up to us to do so.  We are to let it go and let God deal with it.