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(The quote is taken from Red Dawn -- the original, not the remake.)
I love a good slice-and-dice. To me a slice-and-dice is when a writer can totally destroy someone through his words. It's not enough to say, "I don't like you and wish you ill." They go into vivid details of what that ill looks like.
Doesn't seem very Christlike, does it? Christians are supposed to love everyone and wish no man harm. Which brings me to my struggles for the last couple of days -- Psalm 109. David -- a true Man of God according to God's own words, sliced-and-diced in details that make me even cringe. Me cringing is something to see, because I usually like a good slice-and-dice. (Bob Dylan was great at slice-and-dice. lol)
-- You can't say he didn't mean it. Look at it! He really meant it.
-- You can't excuse it in any way because it is officially God's word, so it is what God would have us know about God.
-- You can't say, "yeah but that's Old Covenant." God hasn't changed, and David was a Christian, even if he never knew who the Christ would be. He believed as much about God as we do. God would bring a Savior to have himself a people who love him and glorify him forever. That's exactly what it is to be a Christian. That's the same belief, other than we're looking back at that event, while David was looking forward to it.
Sooo, obvious question -- any understanding on when it is time to ask God to avenge us?
The best I have is that I am very grateful God has never placed me in the position that David was in for decades -- where people he loved deeply were out to slaughter him. I don't particularly feel inclined to think God should slaughter anyone for the slights people have given me verbally in my life. I don't even particularly feel a need to ask God to avenge me for those who physically hurt me.
When is the time to start asking God that our enemy would leave his kids fatherless, and that even his wife gets destroyed?
I love a good slice-and-dice. To me a slice-and-dice is when a writer can totally destroy someone through his words. It's not enough to say, "I don't like you and wish you ill." They go into vivid details of what that ill looks like.
Doesn't seem very Christlike, does it? Christians are supposed to love everyone and wish no man harm. Which brings me to my struggles for the last couple of days -- Psalm 109. David -- a true Man of God according to God's own words, sliced-and-diced in details that make me even cringe. Me cringing is something to see, because I usually like a good slice-and-dice. (Bob Dylan was great at slice-and-dice. lol)
-- You can't say he didn't mean it. Look at it! He really meant it.
-- You can't excuse it in any way because it is officially God's word, so it is what God would have us know about God.
-- You can't say, "yeah but that's Old Covenant." God hasn't changed, and David was a Christian, even if he never knew who the Christ would be. He believed as much about God as we do. God would bring a Savior to have himself a people who love him and glorify him forever. That's exactly what it is to be a Christian. That's the same belief, other than we're looking back at that event, while David was looking forward to it.
Sooo, obvious question -- any understanding on when it is time to ask God to avenge us?
The best I have is that I am very grateful God has never placed me in the position that David was in for decades -- where people he loved deeply were out to slaughter him. I don't particularly feel inclined to think God should slaughter anyone for the slights people have given me verbally in my life. I don't even particularly feel a need to ask God to avenge me for those who physically hurt me.
When is the time to start asking God that our enemy would leave his kids fatherless, and that even his wife gets destroyed?
