Today's Daily Lesson comes from Psalms 50
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving *
and make good your vows to the Most High.
16 But to the wicked God says: *
"Why do you recite my statutes,
and take my covenant upon your lips;
18 When you see a thief, you make him your friend, *
and you cast in your lot with adulterers.
19 You have loosed your lips for evil, *
and harnessed your tongue to a lie.
20 You are always speaking evil of your brother *
and slandering your own mother's son.
21 These things you have done, and I kept still, *
and you thought that I am like you.
I encourage everyone to go and read Psalms 50 in full. It is about a people who profess God, tithe their money, yet have sold their souls to outright lies, calumny, and outright criminality. It, as is said elsewhere, about "a people who worship God with their tongues but whose hearts are a long ways away."
It is an indictment.
And the worst thing, the psalmist says, is that the people thought it was Godliness -- in other words, as God says:
"and you thought that I am like you."
God is God of truth and not slander. God is a God integrity and faithfulness, not corruption and abuse.
There is a due penalty for all who blaspheme God's name. Its cost is high. I pray that we as a people would find our way into the grace of repentance before we have to pay it.
The good news is there is still time to decide . . .
Ryon Price is Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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