September 17, 2012 – Psalms 58 – 59

58 – I got the sense that the singer is not asking that the wicked be stopped altogether, but that their methods be thwarted.  Don’t stop them from shooting the arrow, just make it so that their arrows are off course.  It makes you think about the attacks that Catholics are under today.  There are some that attack the actual theology of the Church, but they aren’t the majority.  The majority of attacks come at the human side of the Church.  The humans that make up the Church are weak in that they are always going to be human and sinful.  They are vulnerable to attack.  The Truth of the Church, the theology and the teachings are Godly, they are not vulnerable to sin, and therefore, not so easily attacked.  Thus, the humans that make up the Church is where the majority attack it.  But if that is where the attack comes, the Church will always be there.  Maybe in a different size or different shape from what we see today, but the Church will remain.  God is not stopping attacks, but He may be nudging their aim so as to not strike a bull’s-eye. 

59 – Part of the plea to God is that the evil doers will be caught in their lies.  Isn’t that a great trick that God has allowed.  When you lie, you must remember that lie, and you will likely have to lie to cover up the first.  I heard that each lie you tell will cause you to have to lie 7 more times to keep it.  Obviously it is easy to see that you can’t keep up with it and you will be caught.  Lust like the complicated way in which God created the inner workings of an eyeball, God also created the inner workings of how things like lies will lead to other lies and thus we will be caught in our own web.  Keep that in mind, all you politicians.  For my part, I know I am not smart enough to lie.