PSALM 37
(So… this is the Lia version… Remixed)
1-2 Find
hope in the fact that evil people will get what they have coming. Don’t wish
ill upon them, or else God will see our hearts and join us with them.
3-4 Trust
God! He’s all that is good so when we trust, good is within us too! Live in His
land and be a best friend to faithfulness. When we take delight in Him, he
places His own delight into ours, making them identical. He only delights what
is good.
5-6 Devote
yourself to a 24/7 commitment to His ways. Trust that He is enough to get you
there and He will act on behalf of your belief. He brings forth whatever light is within you and displays it
in the middle of the day.
7 Be
still in the chaos of this world, wait for the peace that only comes from God.
With eyes open, it’s easy to fret over what we see… instead close them and walk
blindly out of your own understanding.
8-9 Don’t
get mad at what you think is right and wrong in others, it only brings you into
your own wrath inviting evil to come and play. They’ll get what’s coming to them but those who wait will
inherit all that is of God.
10-11 Time
is coming, sooner than later, that you pass by the ugly people’s house and
wonder, “where did they go?” The
gentle, those that did not try to take what they wanted and waited for God to
give them these gifts in abundance, will receive all that they see in God’s
house. Peace will fall on them and they will delight as their enemies thrash
out of God’s sight.
12-13 People
with ugly hearts spend their days setting traps for the good, but God laughs
with a big belly at their toil because He knows that each attempt will blow up
in their face.
14-15 They
plan their evil ways with weapons fashioned for the death of the down and out,
each bullet made of a cancerous hate of all things good. When they aim and take shot, their ammo
backfires into their own heart causing them ultimate destruction.
16-17 A
good man’s thimble is more costly than the evil man’s mansion. The wicked will
get their feet cut out from under them while God holds the righteous with His
own hand and weight.
18-19 God
knows the ending to the way of the blameless. The journey is hard, but the
reward is greater than all hope and imagination. They are already co-heirs to a timeless treasure that
shields them from shame and gives them plenty in days of nothing.
20 The
bad will die off like a pasture’s dry grass being burned for new growth in the
next season.
21 The
ugly lives for what they can get now while those that love good realize they
can never possess a blessing, they must give because it was given to them.
22 Anyone
who is looked on well by the Lord gets to taste all that is in His garden, the
others can only look and wish for His produce.
23-24 Those
that keep eyes on the Way-Maker will always find good footing in His path. Even
when tricksters throw sticks in his way and he stumbles, His hand is held up by
a mighty grace.
25-26 In
all of the days that I have seen the sun-rise and set, God has always seen over
the family of the honorable man.
His children never went without a meal because God gave without measure.
This is the making of approved generations.
27 May
your back always be to evil so your arms can embrace God’s dwelling forever.
28 God
LOVES His sovereign decisions. They are preserve truth like sweet strawberry
jam and cut off generations that rot, those that are born of lies.
29 The ones made right will taste this sweetness and live in that orchard forever.
30-31 A
man that feasts on all things God are held up by his desire for good like a
stringed marionette. Even when he
slips, his foot finds holding because his desire is not to move on his own, but
rather to please His puppet Master. He speaks only when his Master speaks,
their words are one.
32-33 The
ugly seek out a malevolent vindication against good brothers. God will never
leave us on the trial-stand, He is our Lawyer and Judge and the Judge of our
persecutor. He fights for us against the power and rhetoric of evil.
34 Patiently
persist in the Way and expect your feet to no longer touch ground. God lifts us
high above the reach of the sour-hearted to His glory. The ugly have no rope or
ladders to this place.
35-36 The
ugly boast in how they flourish and find no obstacle that can’t be conquered by
ways of evil influence. Then they die and their momentary treasure is lost
forever, never to be found.
37-38 Blameless
and upright have access to a future, those against these things only have
access to death.
39-40 The
Lord is the root of all of our recovery from who we once were. He is the strong
hand that pulls us from the depths of trouble. The refuge of God is the safe
place from hurricanes of evil. Those that are delivered from these things find
a house in the beauty and promises of God and His truth.
