Cultural Divide

Psalm 50:14 Offer to God thanksgiving, And pay your vows to the Most High. 15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me." 

Psalm 50:16 But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth, 17 Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you? 18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers. 19 You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit.

There is a cultural divide presented in Psalm 50, written by Asaph, one of David’s worship leaders. (I have separated the verses to make this divide apparent.)

The cultural divide is between the Godly and the Godless, and it filters down all the way into the present day. I suppose this divide has always been present in some form or other, going all the way back to Cain and Abel.

Cain desired to present to God the fruit of his pride, and Abel desired to give God a sacrifice of all God had provided him.

Their hearts could not have been further apart. God accepted Abel’s sacrifice, and he rejected Cain’s. Cain got mad at God and killed his brother Abel. Cain’s descendents turned away from God, eventually becoming completely Godless, and were destroyed in the great flood.

There is an important clue present in the story of Cain and Abel, and it is that the Godless, no matter their apparent profit, will not survive. This is the theme of Psalm 50. No matter the apparent victory of the Godless you may find yourself in the midst of, they will not survive, and - that the Godly shall be delivered - no matter how woeful their circumstance may presently appear.

Appearance can be very deceiving, as when the Godless quote scripture to justify their Godless cause, in an effort to appease the Godly. Psalm 50 assures us God sees and God knows those who know Him – as well as those who do not. You may fool the people, but you cannot fool God.

These are very trying times for Godly people in the United States of America. We have been through a 150 year period of the erosion of faith. We are being told the country was “not founded on Christ,” and that, “the founding fathers believed in the separation of church and state.” We are being told these things by very important people – as they pass un-Godly legislation determined to create dependence on government and not on God. We rest in knowing this: God sees.

 -  Pastor Bill