Listen up!

Are you listening to God? If he speaks would you recognise his voice? When you hear him do you only listen to what you want to hear?

If it was me, then fair enough!

Psalm 7

Psalms 7:3-5

3)  O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

4)  If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

5)  Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

David was a man often accused, but only one time justly, when he took Bathsheba as his wife, and had her husband killed. During the rest of his life he was many times on the run from the law, King Saul. We do at times make mistakes in our lives, but when we are unjustly accused our natural reaction is to take the fight to our accuser.

David had that chance on so many occasions. Twice he got so close to Saul that he could have killed him, yet took only proof that he had been there. Even when Saul died David was distraught, and had Saul’s killer killed. Never did he retaliate in kind. If it is my fault, he said, let me live on the run forever, yet he ended up king of Israel in place of Saul. History judged him innocent of the accusations of Saul.

When you are accused, how do you act and react? We should take a leaf out of David’s book. God is the judge, and he will recompense evil. As he says, “He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.” There is no need for us to retaliate. The truth has a way of sorting things out.

On the other side we must take care not to be those false accusers. Do you want to face the judgement of God? The bible tells us to correct one another in love. Sometimes that hurts, but it is never done in anger. Uprightness of  heart is key for the accused and accuser. Let God be the judge.