Anglican Daily Fountain 22nd February 2024 (Devotional Today)
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TOPIC: GOD JUDGES WICKEDNESS
TEXT: Psalm 58: 1-11(KJV)
58:1. Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
58:2. Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
58:3. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
58:4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
58:5. Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
58:6. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
58:7. Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
58:8. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
58:9. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
58:10. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
58:11. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Anglican Daily Fountain 22nd February 2024 STUDY:
The wicked are known by their actions which include acts of violence and speaking lies. The Psalmist prays that God will judge the wicked by breaking their teeth, melting them away, destroying them before they are born and removing them with a whirlwind. The effects of God’s vengeance on the wicked are that the righteous shall rejoice and confess that there is a reward for the righteous from God who judges the earth.
All over the world, there are wicked people who seem to be getting away with evil. In some countries in Africa, wicked leaders promote acts of lawlessness with impunity. Violence, drugs, rape, kidnapping, bloodshed and insecurity are some of the fruits of wicked men in our land today. Even the youths now engage in evil such as idolatry in the name of cultural revival, examination malpractice, fornication, abortion, etc., because they do not fear God. But a day of judgment of the wicked is coming. However, it will be well with the righteous (Isa. 3: 10). You can be declared righteous today if you will confess all your sins, repent of them, and receive Jesus into your heart right now. Take that important action now and be saved.
PRAYER: Father, cause me to examine my life and to make peace with You today, Amen.
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