Day 116

Today's reading: 2 Sam. 1; Ps. 140; Mt. 13

 

What the heck, David?  Why you so mean?  Did you ever notice how much hacking the man after God's own heart participates in. Hack, hack, hack.  It seems particularly ironic when you compare 2 Sam 1 with Psalm 140.  He goes from hacking to praying that God would prevent him from being hacked.  Double standard?

 

Actually, I don't think so.  

 

Our tendency is to see the scripture through the lens of our modern life where hacking is always bad unless someone on TV is doing it.  David had a much more eternal perspective.  The evil was not in the hacking, it was in the trusting.  If you trust in YHWH, you don't deserved to be hacked.  If you don't trust in YHWH, you will probably behave in such a way as to earn a royal hacking (like our poor friend at the open of 2 Samuel).  Our source determines the rightness of our actions, not the other way around.  

 

Dear Jesus, make me hack-proof through my trust in You.  Amen.