Sorry that it is a day late.
Sometimes there are verses or passages of Scripture that feed me for more than one day. I find that the next day I read the same passage again and my thoughts are just focused on them.
I went back to Psalm 41. I gave verse 9 in the last post. It talks about how his familiar friend had turned on him. You can get the sense of the pain that has been caused by this so called friend.
I noticed in verse 10 that the Psalmist asks for the Lord to raise him up that he might 'requite' him. That confused me and still does to some degree. If vengeance is the Lord's, how could a man after God's own heart pray that way. I began to think of how many of the psalmists prayers were for the downfall of his enemies. I wondered how could these things be.
Then I realized that David's enemies were God's enemies. Not because God decided that whoever was an enemy of David was an enemy of His. But rather, David was so in tune with God-his 'be level' was so great that God's enemies were David's enemies.
Oh, that I would walk close to God. That I would be a man after God's own heart. That I might hear His very heartbeat.
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