Psalm 2

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ.  I am behind schedule already today so I will not post much about what has been going on.  I am doing pumpkin carvings with the college students tonight before Bible Study, and then I think I have everything ready for Sunday's Gun Day Fun Day.  I will try to put up on here how all of that went and maybe even some pictures.
I have been doing pretty well so far with my daily Psalm's devotions.  Here is Psalm 2:

Psalm 2:5-6

            When one first reads these two verses they seem contradictive.  The Lord is angry, speaking in wrath, going to terrify them, but then speaks a not very scary quote.  It makes me think of a bad scary movie where the scene tries to set up major fear, with lower lighting, intense music, slow panning camera angle, all leading up to… a non-scary monster.  The buildup was scarier than the actual “scary” thing.  Here the buildup makes it seem like God is really, really angry.  He is going to say this horrifying, stop you cold in your tracks, make your heart miss a beat, terrifying thing.  God could speak words that would literally scare us to death; He could speak words that cause our heart to race so fast it would explode.  And yet what He says here isn’t scary at all.  How is this message going to terrify anyone?  Well, I guess I am looking at ti through my personal bias.  It is not scary to me because I know that His King is Jesus, my Savior and my life.  It is comforting and reassuring for me to hear these words, because I have faith in this King who is now sitting on Zion, the holy hill.  However, looking back to the previous verses who God is actually talking to, we can better understand that these are terrifying words… for them!  The kings of the earth and the rulers all have taken council together against the Lord.  These guys who have set themselves up as their own gods, thinking they are better than God, to them this message is terrifying.  His King who He has set on the holy hill of Zion is easily going to defeat these puny little earthly kings.  These guys should be shaking in their boots as the Lord speaks out of wrath and fury, because their time has run out.  Their reign is now over as the one true King is now here, ready to defeat them, end their silly little council, and show them that God is still above all.  For these guys who are against the Lord, these words of the Lord are terrifying.  However, for us they are comforting because we are His chosen people who the King is here to protect and rule over.  So we rejoice, but for all those against the Lord they tremble in terror, knowing this New King is the end of them.  Thanks be to God He has called us to be His people, given us His faith to believe in Him rather than stand against Him, so that these words are words of grace, love, and comfort rather than the terrifying message it is to all those against Him. 

Dear Heavenly Father, 
Please keep us all in the one true faith at all times, so that we may never stand against you.  Send Your King who sits on Your holy hill to us quickly so that we may live in service and worship to Him under His protection and reign in Your presence each and every day.  Amen.