Psalms 12:8

"The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men."


Evil doers are everywhere.  They walk about on the streets going about their business.  They are in your homes, at your workplace, sitting on benches in your parks and serving you the very food that you eat.  What's more is that they go unnoticed, even to themselves for the evil that they do is praised among mankind.


They take vengeance when vengeance belongs to the Lord.  The have premarital sex when sex belongs to the covenant of marriage.  The victimize their brethren in order to make financial gains in business.  They overlook the needs of the poor in order to satisfy their own self-indulgence.  Their hearts lust for violence as they seek to be entertained.  Americans love all these things but they are vile in the eyes of the LORD.

And instead of being filled with grief, we are instead proud!  We encourage practices which seem normal culturally but are in no way God fearing practices.  And so the wicked walk about freely and unrepentant for they do not know what they do.  They feel accepted when in reality they are condemned and if we as the Church live the same way, do we not encourage the same practices?  Do we not condemn ourselves?  But let God judge those outside the church and let your life shine to show men the error of their ways.

Genesis 11:6-7

"The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.  Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."


It seems God had made us too well. He made us too perfectly so that when we worked together (like at the tower of Babel) nothing was impossible for us. Imagine what man would be capable of if we were not so limited by cultural barriers?

However, collective omnipotence (defined as the ability to do anything you set out to do) is not something that fallen man can handle.  God has formed us and set us a little below God himself, made in his image.  Whereas God is bound by his very nature (Good, loving, just, righteous, etc.), we have proven ourselves not bound to it.  Some of us serve one master, the Serpent, and those who are redeemed serve the Risen Lord.

Indeed, we were banished from the garden for the same reason:  that we might not become more powerful and more like God by eating from the tree of life. If we became gods, we would not need God or worship God, which indeed is the entire point of our creation.  So God is using the very thing he used to drive us apart so that together we might rely on God to do the impossible and change this world for good.