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God is just
“For You have maintained my just cause; You have sat on the throne judging righteously.” [Psalm 9.4 NASB]
Frequently, especially at the ever increasing prolonged periods of injustice, we long to see circumstances, natural and spiritual, as they really are from God’s perspective, and not as they seem to be to our finite understanding, all awry and out of focus with His will.
At the present time, we all live, like David does here, between what we know by experience and what we believe by faith will actually happen. The writer to the Hebrews also touched on this theme in relation to the life of the Lord [Heb. 2.7-9]
This relationship between reality and normality can be parallel to living in two different worlds at the same time. For example, David knew by faith that God had dealt a deadly blow to the wicked [Psalm 9.1-6], but at the same time, they were still afflicting the righteous. However, note “when” in [Psalm 9.3]. David knew that ultimate victory was only a matter of time. This is where we are today.
Occasionally, what we hear, see, or personally experience, especially sorrows of the heart, can shake us and cause us to stumble or even worse, have a lapse of faith in God’s word. Paul, who had more fights than most, exhorted us to “be steadfast, immoveable and always abounding in the work of the Lord.” [1 Cor. 15.58]
David knew, and we also know by faith that God is sovereign and the future, which He has outlined in this Psalm, is set in concrete [Psalm 9.7-12]
This unshakable confidence in God was the base for his prayer of faith in [Psalm 9.13-14]. Furthermore, God’s man also knew that praises and not problems were just round the corner and he was also confident that a different dimension of life and not death was his and our ultimate destination. [David McArdle]
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