Psalm 32 is a joyful statement of the blessing of God's forgiveness! David speaks of how awful he felt when he hid his sin and how it affected his entire life! When he confessed his sin, God was faithful and just to forgive him (1 John 1:9) and he could move on in the joy of God's restoration! Make sure you are keeping yourself in close, intimate fellowship with the Lord by confessing any sin. Then move on in the joy of the Lord and His Word! Verse 11 is YOUR instruction!
11Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you [uncompromisingly] righteous [you who are upright and in right standing with Him]; shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
"Be glad" is the Hebrew word, "samach", which means: to brighten up, cheer up, make merry. "Rejoice" is the Hebrew word, "giyl", whcih means: to be glad, to be joyful, to spin! You who are in right-standing with God are to do these things and MORE! We are to "shout for joy", the Hebrew word, "ranan", which means: to cry out, to give a ringing cry in exaltation, to cry aloud, to sing out for joy, to shout out for joy, to be overcome! There IS a place in the Scripture where we are told to "be still and know that I am God", BUT THIS IS NOT IT! This is the time to be a doer of THIS Word and have the good and Godly results that come from obeying God! AMEN!
When we see all that is taking place on the Earth and realize that every single thing we are seeing now was foretold in the Word of God, then we realize that the promise for US is also soon to come to pass! 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18:
15For this we declare to you by the Lord's [own] word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede [into His presence] or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep [in Him in death]. 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first. 17Then we, the living ones who remain [on the earth], shall simultaneously be caught up along with [the resurrected dead] in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord! 18Therefore comfort and encourage one another with these words.
We are to comfort each other with these Words and then to encourage one another to BE ABOUT OUR FATHER'S BUSINESS! What IS that business? It is spreading the Good News of the Gospel that God isn't holding anything against anyone. That the price for everyone's sin has already been paid and that the only question that will be asked of them when they leave this Earth is "What have you done with Jesus?" AMEN! Keep Heaven in mind when you share the Good News! It is our SURE reward! AMEN!
In 2 Kings 9-10 we see the fulfillment of what God had said would happen to those ungodly kings who went against His Word. I found three verses in Scripture that tell what will happen when to the ungodly:
Job 4:8:
8As I myself have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble and mischief reap the same.
Proverbs 22:8a:
8He who sows iniquity will reap calamity and futility
Hosea 8:7a:
7For they sow the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.
THAT is what happens in these two chapters! Then you would think that the man that God used to fulfill His Word concerning this would open his eyes and decide to do things God's way. NOT SO! 2 Kings 10:31:
31But Jehu paid no attention to walking in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not quit the sins with which Jeroboam made Israel to sin.
And the results? Verses 32-33:
32[So] in those days the Lord began to cut off parts of Israel. Hazael [of Syria] defeated them in all the [across the Jordan] territory of Israel. 33From the Jordan east, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, Reubenites, and Manassites, from Aroer which is by the Valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.
Let's do things God's way! We have much better results then! AMEN!
Shalom in Him!
