My God and My Country

A Study of Psalm Thirty Two

Verse Ten

10 Many sorrows shall come to the wicked: but he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him.

Brethren:

I was speaking with my pastor yesterday morning about, of all things, cartoons. And he said something that would sort of tie in with the above. That the characters in the cartoons in my era as a child, were mostly not evil, bad perhaps, but in that badness, they themselves became victims of their own actions against others. As such, we see today, that will those that would commit evil advance, it still comes back to them in other ways. Sadly, it seems to become a vicious cycle, in which they do wrong, it comes back upon their own heads, and it fuels them to commit even more atrocities.

Now compare the above with the godly man. He that places his trust in Him, whilst he may suffer tribulations, the Lord shall see him through each one. There is a saying of which I disagree. Basically, it states that God, shall not give one more than one can handle. However, I feel that, that is precisely what he does because then we've nowhere else to turn to but to Him. We, are nothing without Him.

“It is not our duty to attempt to excuse or palliate crimes like those of David, or of any other person mentioned in Holy Writ. We should confess that there is scarcely a Scripture character without a stain—nor need we be at any pains to excuse this fact We should, indeed, give the same justice to them that we do to others, but there is nothing in the Bible requiring us to regard sin differently or as less aggravated—whether seen in a Prophet, Minister, Christian, or Infidel. Suppose that the believers mentioned in Scripture had all been represented as faultless, would the Bible have been any more credible? Here in the world we see, as a rule, good men overcoming their sins. At times, however, they may have been overcome by them—and if we turn to the Bible we find just such characters drawn there. Every one must feel that the Scriptures are, therefore, much more credible when they describe believers as but imperfectly sanctified, than they would have been had they represented them as perfect.” - E.J Brewster