Two Classes
With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous.
You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.
For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.
2 Samuel 22:26-33 (ESV)
Max O'Rell has well and wittily said that people are divided into two classes—those who complain that roses have thorns and those who rejoice that thorns have roses. People see God differently, even though God cannot be defined through personal experiences or expectations. If you ignore God, you will attempt to minimize Him and the judgment to come. On the other hand, if you love God, you will maximize His plans and purposes in your life and look forward to the judgment to come.
"You say the desert is a desert because no rain falls upon it, but this is only half the truth. No rain falls upon it because it is a desert. The heated air rushing up from its arid surface disperses the vapours that would descend in rain. Some moisture there must be on the earth, else there cannot be rain from heaven. So in your heart this forgiving disposition must be, else you cannot rejoice in the fulness of God's forgiving grace. The pardon may wait in the sky for you, but it cannot descend to you until that spirit is in you which was also in Christ Jesus." (Biblical Illustrator)
You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.
For you are my lamp, O LORD, and my God lightens my darkness.
For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.
This God—his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true;
he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him.
For who is God, but the LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?
This God is my strong refuge and has made my way blameless.
2 Samuel 22:26-33 (ESV)
Max O'Rell has well and wittily said that people are divided into two classes—those who complain that roses have thorns and those who rejoice that thorns have roses. People see God differently, even though God cannot be defined through personal experiences or expectations. If you ignore God, you will attempt to minimize Him and the judgment to come. On the other hand, if you love God, you will maximize His plans and purposes in your life and look forward to the judgment to come.
"You say the desert is a desert because no rain falls upon it, but this is only half the truth. No rain falls upon it because it is a desert. The heated air rushing up from its arid surface disperses the vapours that would descend in rain. Some moisture there must be on the earth, else there cannot be rain from heaven. So in your heart this forgiving disposition must be, else you cannot rejoice in the fulness of God's forgiving grace. The pardon may wait in the sky for you, but it cannot descend to you until that spirit is in you which was also in Christ Jesus." (Biblical Illustrator)
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