It Knew Him Not part 3
Psalm 55:22-23 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved. (23) But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Listen to what J. Vernon McGee said about these two verses:
Turn over those who would betray you to the Lord. I have found that the Lord does a better job in dealing with my enemies than I can. He knows just how to do it. Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will take care of everything. During the days of the Great Tribulation, Israel will finally turn to the Lord because there will be no place else for them to turn. What about you today? What about me today? How are we going to live in the world today? Are we going to hate people and criticize them for what they do to us? Are we going to cry when we are betrayed and wronged? No! Let’s start trusting in the Lord. That is the way out.
Then there’s the man who said, “Lord, maybe that person was right when he says he loves mankind, but it is people he cannot stand. You see, I love people in general more than I do individually. Lord, it is like the joke about the father who yelled at his kids when they walked in the wet cement of his sidewalk; he can love them in the abstract, but never in the concrete.
“Maybe I need to see a little more of You in them. And maybe I need to see a little more of You in me.”