“Why do you boast about your crimes, great warrior? Don’t you realize God’s justice continues forever? All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies. You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. Interlude You love to destroy others with your words, you liar! But God will strike you down once and for all. He will pull you from your home and uproot you from the land of the living. Interlude The righteous will see it and be amazed. They will laugh and say, “Look what happens to mighty warriors who do not trust in God. They trust their wealth instead and grow more and more bold in their wickedness.” But I am like an olive tree, thriving in the house of God. I will always trust in God’s unfailing love. I will praise you forever, O God, for what you have done. I will trust in your good name in the presence of your faithful people.”
Psalms 52:1-9 NLT
There is a certain foolishness to the finite creature. Their own finiteness is a mere description that applies to themselves but not to God. They think that because they experience time from moment to moment, that their is no consequence for their past. They erroneously believe that they can escape it by escaping into the future. But David knows that God is still there. In the future he waits to judge our pasts. It makes no sense to revel in our sins or to lie about them if we think beyond the moment. If we understand that all lies will bloom and all sins will manifest as death and chaos in our lives, why do we then boast that the future isn’t yet here, and that the day of judgment is still to come? A thinking man should know that our strength can not be trusted. He should note that he cannot escape his own sin. He should welcome the judgment and instead boast in the nature of the one who judges. To know that the court in whom you are scheduled to appear is not only fair, but is graceful, is indeed worth trusting in. We should not be afraid of lies or liars or those who put their stock in their machinations. We should glory in the fact that a righteous and caring God holds our fate in his hands.
