All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
Today it often seems like the wicked win. It can feel disheartening. What they do seems to prosper.
It may bring comfort to know, it’s always been like this. The Psalmist felt like this. But he took comfort in knowing that it’s God who executes judgment. And He will vindicate and lift up the righteous in due time.
Ezek 28:15-16 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you. In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian…
Mal 1:6 “A son honours his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, ‘How have we despised your name?’ Interestingly…
Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. We get the the end of a horrible story here. A whole tribe nearly wiped out. Each bad decision led to another bad decision as the last bad decision was attempted to be fixed in…
1 Pet 1:12 It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look. Angels long to look into the…
Gen 14:14,15 – When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan. And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah,…
Rom 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. It’s easy to conform. It takes no work at all. Your mind will follow the crowd. It’s amazing…
