February 12, 2013 – Psalms 142 – 144

These Psalms mention a lot about seeking help from an enemy. What first caught my attention is the understanding that they were stronger than himself. He tells God that the enemy is stronger than he is, so he needs God’s help. It is so important for us to understand that we are not strong enough to defeat evil on our own. It is something that is a very dangerous thing to take on, on your own. We need God’s help and we need to know and believe that He has already defeated it and it has no power over Him.

The second thing I thought of was the idea of an enemy and how many people want to see the world as having no enemies. That is what moral relativism does. If everything that you think is right is right and everything that the other person thinks is right is right, then you cannot be angry with them about their beliefs and you will not be enemies. This, at first glance, would seem to end all war and create a blessed world. It is the opposite. An example I heard on the radio is a person who was interviewed about self defense. She said that she didn’t believe self-defense was ever an option. She believed that if someone was going to kill her or her family, she should allow them to without any type of fight. This is extreme, but shows what a world without Truth and Moral Truth leads to. What would that person say about Hitler, he had the right to do what he did, the Jews shouldn’t have fought back. There are enemies and they are strong. We MUST fight back, but we cannot get anywhere without God.