Psalm 63 (Part V)

⁸ I cling to You;
    Your right hand upholds me.

Like a child who grabs hold of his parents leg for security, do you cling to God?  When you do, do you know that it is His hand that holds you?  Or do you feel alone?  Our faith must rest in His Word that tells us He holds us, He helps us, He rescues us, He comforts us, He delivers us, He is for us, He will never forsake us, and He saves us.

⁹ Those who want to kill me will be destroyed;
    they will go down to the depths of the earth.
¹⁰ They will be given over to the sword
    and become food for jackals.

The brutality of these verses is coupled by the enormity of the faith.  We do not think this way.  We do not declare with confidence that our enemies will be destroyed.  We take a "if God wills" approach and let that escape clause get us out of having to decide to put our heart into our faith and believe what we think we know in our heads.  How decidedly weak we are!  With all our tools and intelligence, the single most important thing we can do is decide to believe and declare it.  Know that God WILL answer today.  Know that He will "deal bountifully with you" (Ps 142:7).  Don't doubt.  Don't think He will.  Don't meagerly hope for it.  BELIEVE THAT GOD LOVES YOU, LISTENS TO YOU, AND LABORS FOR YOUR BEST TODAY.  Your enemy will be destroyed and removed from the earth.

¹¹ But the king will rejoice in God;
    all who swear by God will glory in Him,
    while the mouths of liars will be silenced.

Everyone who knows the goodness and greatness of the one true living God will glory and rejoice in Him.  Everyone who declares against God, who say He is not the only living God, they are liars and will be silenced. 

When we hear someone dismiss God or claim that one of His ways is not the truth in the media or in a movie, do we hear that as a lie?  Why not?  A bigger question is when it is on a sit-com and the lie is repeated over and over and over, why do we keep watching?  Why do we let our kids keep watching?  We have to know that eventually that lie will sink in and disguise the truth.  Eventually, the slow erosion will convince us that it really isn't a lie and God's Word is so outdated.  We know this, right? ... So, what is the simple action that should follow that honesty?

One day all the liars will be silenced.  "Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess to God" (Ro 14:11).  No matter how we justify ourselves today, no matter how the world thinks or who they think is a god, one day everyone will know and will give an account of themselves before the truth that they knew was the truth but wouldn't accept.  One day our own lies will be silenced.  One day the lies we tell ourselves to cover what we don't want to see or be honest about will be silenced.  We should seek to live everyday with our knees bowed now and our tongue confessing now so our lies can be silenced now.