Psalms 7:11"God is Angry With the Wicked Every Day" There are things a person ought to know about

God. In fact, we ought to know all we can about God in view of the fact that, "The LORD, He is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture." (Psalms 100:3 NKJV) In many ways life is a great mystery. There is only so much we can know about life but the one thing that is certain is that we came from God. It is either that or the Bible is a lie. It is either that or life came from non-living matter (which, I might add, brings on another questionwhere did the non-living matter come from). Solomon, by inspiration, wrote, "Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosedThen the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it." (Eccl. 12:6-7 NKJV) One day we must all give an account of our lives before God. This is the fate God has destined us for. "For it is written: 'As I live, says the LORD, Every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall confess to God.' So then each of us shall give account of himself to God." (Rom. 14:11-12 NKJV) God is only going to make two divisions in the Day of Judgment and all those who have ever lived will be placed in one division or the other. "All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left." (Matt. 25:32-33 NKJV) Of the goats set on the left hand Jesus says, "Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'" (Matt. 25:41 NKJV) He goes on and says, "These will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life." (Matt. 25:46 NKJV) This brings me to Psalms 7:11, the subject of this piece and the title of the post. The entirety of Psalms 7:11 reads, "God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day." (NKJV) With God man is either justified (we might say made righteous or forgiven) or else he must go into the category of the wicked. Man is either a sheep or a goat as God gives no other options. Does this mean that by man's standards or yours or mine that all the wicked are what we Americans normally think of as wicked men? Not at all! Many are great guys or gals in that they are honest in their dealings, kind to and thoughtful of others, friendly, do a lot of good deeds, and are often very likeable people and fun to be around. Often their only fault is that they have left God out of their lives but you see that is as big as it gets. How

does one leave his creator out of his life and not give him any thought or honor or respect? How does one live his life as though God does not matter? What if we treated a mother or father, a son or daughter, a wife or husband this way? What then? Could it be said we love them, that we respect and honor them, and that we care about them? When we treat God like he is nothing to us and he does not matter how can we think we are going to be seen as a sheep in his eyes? We have obviously shown we are not concerned about him. We have treated him with contempt whether we set out to do it intentionally or not. Is such a man wicked? Well, maybe not by man's measurements but how about by God's? When we treat God this way we deeply offend him and kick sand figuratively in his face. Can we blame him if he is angry with us? The Bible teaches God has feelings as well as man does (Gen. 6:6). We hurt him when we do not care about him. Have you ever had anyone you love treat you that way? You love them but they treat you in such a way so that you know by their actions they really do not care about you. If so you know a little about how God must feel when man casts God from his life or will not allow him to enter in. Remember John 3:16? God loves us and we treat him as though he was to be avoided at all cost, as though he was evil. No, we may not do these things intentionally but that does not change the reality of our actions. We have all heard the old saying that actions speak louder than words and many can attest to that based on their own personal relationships. I memorized Psalms 7:11 because I felt it was something I needed to keep in mind. God is longsuffering with us not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9) but the fact that my life or your life is seemingly going along well does not mean God is well pleased with us. It may only be that in God's goodness he is exercising forbearance and longsuffering in an effort to lead you or me to repentance (Rom. 2:4 NKJV). I don't care how much your friends think of you they do not love you like God does and they are utterly powerless to save you. Neither are they going with you the day you get into a car accident that takes your life or the day you pass away in a bed somewhere, at a hospital or home, or the day your heart just stops beating. We all die alone. Even on DDay when men were dying all over the beachhead during WW II each had to take the trip to eternity alone whether a human hand held theirs or not. Many left for eternity that day but each went alone. The only friend man has capable of being with him through his darkest hour is God.

When that day comes, and it may sneak up on you unexpected and early in life, and it will certainly come late in life if you escape it in your young and middle age years, do you want to face an angry God? Are you able to take on God and win? Do you want to be foolish enough to try it? It would not even be a bet as to how that will come out if you choose that route. Psalms 7:11b is very short, just a very few words. The words are few. The message is powerful and ought to be life changing. Is it going to change your life? If needed, and if not, then you are sure to face an angry God. Man has been given free will and gets to choose the route he/she will take with all the consequences that come with that. Put another way man gets to reap what he has sown (Gal. 6:7) and will indeed do so. "The way of the unfaithful is hard." (Prov. 13:15 NKJV) It is a way that is too hard for me to travel intentionally. I cannot take on God and win. It is my hope for you who read this that you come to the same conclusion for yourself. One has not known terror until he faces an angry God on the Day of Judgment.