The Lord is at your right hand;
he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
He will execute judgement among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter chiefs*
over the earth.
He will drink from the brook by the way
therefore he will lift up his head.
*or "the head"
Psalm 11:5-7
He will judge the nations filling them with corpses? He will shatter kings? Yes. Yes He will. How can a God of love and mercy do this you might ask? After all, our culture loves to emphasize how good God is, how much He loves us, and how He wants to bless us if we follow Him. These things are all true, yet I was reminded this morning that our God is not just a being who exists to give love and blessings, but the King of all Kings who hates wickedness and will destroy it. It is difficult to picture the nations filled with corpses. But as or world continues to choose to live in and worship sin, they leave God no choice. I think we think that because of the cross, God will never act like He did in the Old Testament again. Oh, how wrong we are and how misguided our view of God is if that is how we see Him. A God bound by the cross to never pour out wrath again? No, a God who gave His life on the cross so He wouldn't have to pour out His wrath on everyone, but only those that reject Him.
I am reminded by this psalms of how I want to be on God's side. I want to live my life in a way where I hate sin as much as He does yet choose to love my enemies, even if it's at the expense of my life. God is throned high above all kings and principalities and has the power to destroy them with a thought. Yet He chooses to to give us grace after grace, in hope that we might turn form our sin to Him. His grace will not last forever. I pray that we are not one of those corpses in the street the nations, but a son or daughter in the presence of the King reigning in His kingdom forever.
